From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 27 10:49:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C75DD15016 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:49:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 28472 invoked from network); 27 Dec 1999 18:40:42 -0000 Received: from userao19.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.135.135) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 27 Dec 1999 18:40:42 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA87264; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 18:41:00 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 18:41:00 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: robmel@nadt.org.uk, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup woes Message-ID: <19991227184100.H1290@marder-1> References: <199912271802.KAA02871@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199912271802.KAA02871@vashon.polstra.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 10:02:15AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > In article , > Robin Melville wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Am I alone in having a hell of a time cvsup-ing 3.4? I'm using the > > exact same supfile as ever, but it crawls (on whatever server I try) > > then finally dies with "TreeList failed: Network write failure: > > Connection timed out" at anything up to one hour after starting. > > I haven't seen any problems like this under 3.4. Have you tried > some other mirror sites? There are only about 50 of them to choose > from. :-) > Since you're in the UK try *default host=cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org in your sup-file I get excellent d/l speeds from there (some of the US servers are painfully slow from the UK, unless you pick a time when everyone's asleep over The Pond). > John > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture that allows you to install Windows too" -Matthew D. Fuller ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message