From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 11 15:32:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97744106566B for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:32:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dimitar.vassilev@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2008FC16 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:32:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy5 with SMTP id 5so1135598ewy.14 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:32:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=oWaKTj3onmhPiDFTJlp8DrHKNb3EVmkku1dyAfbTSec=; b=vCd6aPtQXXeEMSN+Zku1wSO4J6U7i7resFTgbVZHVZvjAaage88OWUBP1G9Muc4H0x WXlQ1lO8CyAR8uuYd5Sg++huQK1mqr5/6Z3sWkrbQoPUp1CUmyY1cNYG1XvqOG4hIndY f8GzRELQEphqUtZOynTN1ZGKLvC2nl51GEtiU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=kjVX6ND1ashsW4VYZCQ+vZ2M1o5OnciFWR3AgEDpK1po3rVbyxo0IotHHe0+yfMTmg dmYWDWC4ADQLUapthJcs6zBXdt2QrVLqhBz7t4wV46P21Ufs3SiYUAyQaaSQhg5p5ycL e1p6KGH/aeGDPUsrOdA13OAHxqfdOcZFYXm/M= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.103.9 with SMTP id i9mr1768776ebo.16.1260545530610; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:32:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <59adc1a0912110158j156706d7m1fa7b25002f61edb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:32:10 +0200 Message-ID: <59adc1a0912110732v515346eeq4ce82830f5b75618@mail.gmail.com> From: Dimitar Vasilev To: Xin LI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new porstnap mirror X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:32:12 -0000 > > portsnap mirrors would consume some thousands of times of bandwidth > that a normal client would typically use. Therefore, you may need to > prove the usefulness (i.e. Internet access is very slow in your > country and having a local portsnap mirror would significantly improve > the users' experience, etc, and you really have so many users). > > For small to medium sized enterprise/countries, a possible alternative > would be to do this with reverse HTTP proxy which caches these files. > > Cheers, > -- > Xin LI http://www.delphij.net > I'm located in Bulgaria and to be honest one user asked. So far my regular patients are a news agency, 2-3 private hospitals, some Turkish government servers, 2-3 telcos and the regular FBSD bunch - 100-200 local people plus the various stray bunch from around the world. We will see how it goes. Best regards, Dimitar Vassilev