From owner-freebsd-hubs Fri Oct 18 8:18:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3AF37B401 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:18:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1168243E88 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:18:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9IFIFFu043647; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:18:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9IFID0A043642; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:18:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:18:13 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: jason andrade Cc: mirror-maintainer@mirror.averse.net, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp-master access to HP-internal ftp mirror? Message-ID: <20021018171813.A43615@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jason@dstc.edu.au on Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:00:36AM +1000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:00:36AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 mirror-maintainer@mirror.averse.net wrote: > > > > and one of our internal ftp-mirrors to get access to ftp-master > > > so that he can directly mirror from ftp-master for fast access > > > to any stuff onto our (HP) internal ftp mirror site. > > > How should I arrange this? > > > Wilko > > > (see also http://testdrive.compaq.com etc) > > > > Do they actually need up to the minute/hour access to the ftp repository? > > > > My take is that, given limited resources, only the major public mirrors > > require direct access to ftp-master and everyone else, including private > > mirrors and smaller public mirrors, can select the closest available > > mirror. > > i'm normally pretty pedantic about this too, but for large vendors supporting > freebsd, i always think it is good to make exceptions in the interests of > promoting freebsd.. > > ftp-master access to an internal HP archive to support a userbase of > 100K > users seems quite reasonable. That was my thinking, yes. This guy also runs the testdrive.[hp,compaq].com machines, and that same group has supplied quite some Alpha machines to FreeBSD.org I have to admit I'm slightly biased, as I A. work for Digital^WCompaq^WHP and B. was instrumental in getting HPQ to donate the machines. Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message