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Cc: Harry Maugans <hmaugans@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable
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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