From owner-freebsd-hubs Fri Sep 21 6:22:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B823637B417 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 06:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (#6@localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f8LDLOZ04145; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:21:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200109211321.f8LDLOZ04145@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Peter Wemm Cc: Jesper Skriver , hubs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: The 4.4 FTP Release References: <20010921042151.A693D38FF@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:21:51 PDT." <20010921042151.A693D38FF@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:21:24 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Jesper Skriver wrote: > > > When the former ftp.FreeBSD.org when down (and we setup the current one) > > - Peter Wemm talked about getting Akamai DNS for ftp.FreeBSD.org - I > > don't know if he got any resolution to that. > > I have done a little more research on this. As I understand it, this would > require a box on site at each mirror location running akamai's software > that they can monitor and do their path mappings with. Not strictly true; it requires one of their boxes topologically "nearby" on the Internet with substantially similar connectivity. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message