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Date:      Sun, 09 Mar 1997 23:38:20 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  www/data index.sgml
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970309233819.00bca3a0@dimaga.com>

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At 02:30 PM 3/8/97 +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
>Ollivier Robert writes:
>>According to Wolfram Schneider:
>>>   Modified:    data      index.sgml
>>>   Log:
>>>   Split the link to the german mirror site into two links, one for the
>>>   german FreeBSD pages and one for the mirrored (english) pages from
>>>   www.freebsd.org.
>>
>>Please someone add the link to www.fr.freebsd.org, the french mirror.
>>We should mention ftp.fr.freebsd.org somewhere as well.
>
>We have ~30 Mirrors but the load on www.freebsd.org still growing,
>currently ~70,000 hits / day.

Too long mirror latency time for many of the mirrors?  That's why I hit
www.freebsd.org - all mirrors that are closer to me by network are
outdated.  (I could use one at the same distance, but with the latency I
had seen (dk/se), I gave up all mirrors.)

I tested all the sites - the following are the results. The dates are the
next date from the CVSlog after the date on the front page of the mirror.

www2.freebsd.org:    today
www3.freebsd.org:    before 1996/11/15
www.ar.freebsd.org:  before 1996/10/11
www.au.freebsd.org:  today
www2.au.freebsd.org: today
www3.au.freebsd.org: before 1997/03/04
www.br.freebsd.org:  today
www2.br.freebsd.org: before 1997/03/04
www3.br.freebsd.org: before 1996/11/02
www.ca.freebsd.org:  today
www.cz.freebsd.org:  today
Danish mirror:       before 1996/11/15
www.de.freebsd.org:  today
www.ee.freebsd.org:  before 1997/03/04
www.fi.freebsd.org:  before 1997/03/04 
www.fr.freebsd.org:  today
www.ie.freebsd.org   before 1997/03/04
www.it.freebsd.org doesn't exist (DNS timeout when I tried to look the name
up, no matter which server I used - lacking nameserver backup?)
www.jp.freebsd.org:  today
www.kr.freebsd.org:  today
www.lv.freebsd.org:  today
www.nl.freebsd.org:  today
www.pl.freebsd.org:  today
www.pt.freebsd.org:  before 1996/11/15
www2.pt.freebsd.org: before 1997/03/04
www.ru.freebsd.org:  Connection refused
www2.ru.freebsd.org: before 1997/03/04
www.se.freebsd.org:  before 1996/11/15
www.tw.freebsd.org:  before 1996/11/15
www.uk.freebsd.org:  today
www.za.freebsd.org:  before 1997/03/04

www.ar.freebsd.org is in either portoguese or spanish, but is not marked as
such.

I think we should trow out all servers that hasn't updated since '96 -
everybody that has updated since has also updated after 26th of February,
thus they are relatively current.



Eivind Eklund perhaps@yes.no http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ eivind@freebsd.org



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