From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 6 03:18:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C663331C; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 03:18:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gjb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from onyx.glenbarber.us (onyx.glenbarber.us [IPv6:2607:fc50:1000:c200::face]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88A598FC13; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 03:18:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from glenbarber.us (kaos.glenbarber.us [71.224.221.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: gjb) by onyx.glenbarber.us (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BFFAF23F75B; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 22:18:26 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=freebsd.org; s=dkim; t=1354763907; bh=9m16ew8Qzsuj9Szk2fPvzlRrG9Zx5G0qnhkerBtb70w=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=mDV4IVVASkqzsfPiEEquVyUTp0WqO/XGd1WaQUG6p4tk3EsFY3nvUyeBgQs62Idol j7ELqk7w4lPFHLvQAyjMcDvwJ+lhfWuU1qs1dO6UuM87Uo7GjBS2msKPrj7A8vaFBG d2gtqv5HCgNJFRQczKBxDM5jyoUwtI+F+i+2a+yA= Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 22:18:23 -0500 From: Glen Barber To: kpneal@pobox.com Subject: Re: docs/173598: torrents.freebsd.org seems to be down Message-ID: <20121206031823.GB1297@glenbarber.us> References: <201212052033.qB5KXRZV042682@freefall.freebsd.org> <20121206025733.GA9054@neutralgood.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121206025733.GA9054@neutralgood.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT amd64 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:18:28 -0000 --nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:57:33PM -0500, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > > State-Changed-By: gjb > > State-Changed-When: Wed Dec 5 20:32:01 UTC 2012 > > State-Changed-Why:=20 > > Removed torrents.FreeBSD.org in r40278. >=20 > That's a shame.=20 >=20 > It was used by how many hundreds or thousands of people. It is popular > enough that multiple people reported the outage despite there not being > an obvious place to do it. People are _still_ using BT to download FreeBSD > this very minute: >=20 > ID Done Have ETA Up Down Ratio Status Name > 96 100% 1.18 GB Done 9.0 0.0 3.57 Seeding Fre= eBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc-all > 197 100% 4.11 GB Done 4.0 0.0 5.07 Seeding 8.1= -RELEASE-i386-all > 231 100% 4.23 GB Done 24.0 0.0 12.0 Seeding Fre= eBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-all > 304 100% 2.24 GB Done 16.0 0.0 45.7 Seeding Fre= eBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1 >=20 > It makes it easier for people with flakey net connections to still do > reliable downloads of FreeBSD. Some of these people are here in the US, > but many are all around the world. Heck, the freebsd.org client went down > I forget how many months ago but one or two people tended to keep 200+ old > release torrents on the air. >=20 > It allows people to donate bandwidth to the project while still allowing > FreeBSD to vouch for the authenticity of the downloaded files. And having > a tracker inside freebsd.org means it is easier to defend against charges > of piracy since there were never any files on that tracker that shouldn't > have been there. >=20 > Personally, I hate to see it go. It is not something I can control, unfortunately. Personally, I would not download sources that are not directly provided by the Project however. I removed the link from the website. I did not take down the service. Glen --nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJQwA5/AAoJEFJPDDeguUajWzwH/0SghKFq93OW8MPICjAPjS76 qoz+YpzkcA0txapQ10nwC7A8GnS+32SJkhEuRSeUOa0iGRR2yfRRZtV72ufWEtfQ ++kEbI5iJ2Ym6eQdYwkCkjAdPiP6U4mwOX1Cxwcdy5zVstJVUlDG8lwALhLVjG4M lmRgF/c97Eq8T0WMBFmJwwLGy84Oj6PfqsVGZVU03ODKX40D3v42t68WdhCirum0 zupmLCClBpIIfNorcdJLlsHeKBleFWPKVFdrwLiu+YrBQO2nEMU4qpUDhonynI6n EPbksNP69K3r94PN/usUIj/qIiHL+Q6O8eJsGJljbWPo0chlRoKnw5I9JTxy+LU= =BRUK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS--