From owner-freebsd-hubs Mon Jan 22 16:54:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72ABC37B404 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:54:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f0N0rtx22692; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:53:55 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:54:23 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp/www/whatever mirror In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > find your closest mirror - i don't recomment hitting ftp.freebsd.org > > directly. then start mirroring using rsync or spegla or mirror.pl > > to your local system. > > I guess trial and error for this one. i can't help much.. unless you want to spring for tickets for me to the US in which case i can help a lot :-) just doa few traceroutes to ftpX.freebsd.org and pick a close one. > I'm in CA, basically, I'm going to use it for our internal purposes as > well as anyone else that might be interested. well, depending on your bandwidth, you might or might not want to be advertised. > Not a master at working with rsync, but I guess it's time I learned. rsync is trivial to get installed, is much more secure than a ftp server and offers a lot better mirroring support in terms of bandwidth than ftp. to this day it is a constant annoyance there is no rsync support, even if only for downstream mirrors (not end users) on ftp.freebsd.org :-( > our traffic is so async, I can continually update the server and it won't > affect us at all. cool. best of luck with getting your mirror up -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message