From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 26 6: 0:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from min.net (min.net [208.222.210.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9594914BD6 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 06:00:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aling@alum.mit.edu) Received: from localhost (outpost.cc.nih.gov [137.187.245.138]) by min.net (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA07607; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:00:03 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902261400.JAA07607@min.net> From: "A. Ling" To: "Oliver Fromme" Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" Date: Fri, 26 Feb 99 08:56:48 -0400 Reply-To: "A. Ling" X-Mailer: Alexander Ling's Registered PMMail 1.53 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FTP SNAP site finder (was: 3.1-RELEASE: discrepancies....) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 01:21:30 +0100 (CET), Oliver Fromme wrote about "Re: 3.1-RELEASE: discrepancies between "sysinstall" and "make world" results": >Jose M. Alcaide wrote in list.freebsd-stable: > > Mike Smith wrote: > > > Unfortunately, these reports are too late. Why didn't you test > > > *before* 3.1 was released? > > > > The answer is simple: I cannot install snapshots because the links > > to the sites that store them is _very_ slow from my University. > >Did you try the "FreeBSD Snap Finder" at the following URL? >It is very useful. >http://www.itworks.com.au/~gavin/FBSDsites.php3 > This seems to be a great resource which I hadn't heard about. But I am curious why it only seems to list non-USA sites. Admittedly, it says "Warning: database is currently being updated." -- perhaps this is the reason. If USA sites are excluded by policy, does anyone know if such a service exists for North American sites? I thought not all (USA) sites carry all available SNAPs, CTM deltas, ports, etc. BTW, is there a recommended way short of trial & error to find out which site has the best performance (highest transfer rate & least traffic)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message