Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 22:18:23 -0500 From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: kpneal@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/173598: torrents.freebsd.org seems to be down Message-ID: <20121206031823.GB1297@glenbarber.us> In-Reply-To: <20121206025733.GA9054@neutralgood.org> References: <201212052033.qB5KXRZV042682@freefall.freebsd.org> <20121206025733.GA9054@neutralgood.org>
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--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--
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