From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 26 16:54:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iserver.itworks.com.au (iserver.itworks.com.au [203.32.61.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E4B15027 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:53:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gavin@itworks.com.au) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by iserver.itworks.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA26826; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 11:52:52 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gavin@itworks.com.au) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 11:52:52 +1100 (EST) From: Gavin Cameron To: "A. Ling" Cc: Oliver Fromme , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: FTP SNAP site finder (was: 3.1-RELEASE: discrepancies....) In-Reply-To: <199902261400.JAA07607@min.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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)? US sites are NOT excluded from the search, they were just poorly labeled. The Mirror Sites page is now alphabetical by country name and hosts that live in freebsd.org are now listed under the United States rather than primary freebsd sites. Gavin []-----------------------------------+------------------------------------[] | Gavin Cameron | ITworks Consulting | | Ph : +61 3 9667 0297 | Suite 100, 85 Grattan Street | | Fax : +61 3 9347 6544 | Carlton, Victoria | | Email : gavin@itworks.com.au | Australia, 3053 | []-----------------------------------+------------------------------------[] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message