Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:42:08 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: J65nko <j65nko@gmail.com> Cc: Harry Maugans <hmaugans@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable Message-ID: <46EB4680.60506@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <19861fba0709141927u35d539beo697f703c07628b0f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070913212608.GA19600@demeter.hydra> <009901c7f704$80f61810$530210ac@riodejaneiro> <cf841d6b0709141248u6f5c065av7c34e7c04b8c11af@mail.gmail.com> <46EAE776.70807@mikestammer.com> <e74da3890709141314gcafe994r26f57f7f0122b6be@mail.gmail.com> <19861fba0709141927u35d539beo697f703c07628b0f@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, J65nko wrote: > On 9/14/07, Harry Maugans <hmaugans@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've confirmed (through a friend) in England it's not accessible either. >> >> I'm surprised they wouldn't have redundancies to prevent this from >> happening. Round robin DNS with collocation at least. > > There is a kind of redundancy. The FreeBSD website is mirrored in many > countries. I hardly have problems with www.nl.freebsd.org. > > I wonder why so many people still use the main site, while there are a > lot of mirror sites. guess what my mirror did after the original went down. It also went down. Misconfiguration it says. Some mirrors seem to be perfect mirrors. I must really say that the mirrors are less reliable than the original. Using mirrors still makes sense as the response is faster and it also offloads the original. Erich
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