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Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable
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>> 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.

anyway - when it's too difficult for people  to do that what about slight 
modification of http server on main site?

use geo_ip and redirect.