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Subject: Re: http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/ not updated?
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David Alanis wrote:
> Quoting Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/ doesn't include UK in the list of
>> countries. Should it or was it something we said?
>>
>> Chris
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> I don't know weird? I suppose we can blame Tony Blair!!!!
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTER-SGML-MIRRORS-UK-FTP 
> 
That's right but that page says

The FreeBSD mirror sites database is more accurate than the mirror 
listing in the Handbook, as it gets its information from the DNS rather 
than relying on static lists of hosts.

where 'mirror sites database' is a link to mirrorlist.freebsd.org


Chris