Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:00:22 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@rtfmconsult.com> To: Barry Murphy <barry@unix.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NZ Hub Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0302231754530.14318-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> In-Reply-To: <004a01c2db09$6024faa0$0100a8c0@collette> References: <004a01c2db09$6024faa0$0100a8c0@collette>
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Barry Murphy wrote: > I take it this list doesn't require one to subscribe, so I will openly ask > my questions. well, yes it does but you don't send the subscription message to the list, you send it to majordomo@freebsd.org. your message went to the list and as a result you haven't been subscribed. > 1./ I have created a NZ cvsup server, currently I am mirroring off > cvsup.nz.freebsd.org as this is the only NZ server. Could anyone suggest an > alternate international server that I should use to cvsup from. is there a reason to mirror from an international one if the NZ one is working for you ? it would seems to make sense to try and keep the traffic within the country/region as well as not put any extra load on the master servers unless needed. as an alternate you could sync from a number of australian cvsup servers (e.g cvsup2.au.freebsd.org, cvsup3 etc..). > 2./ I would like cvsup to use a specific IP address when fetching data from > international sites as my default IP is restricted and my other on another > interface isn't. I was unable to find a --bind-address sort of option, does > anyone know a work around to this? have you tried cvsup --help ? specifically cvsup -A <address> i know this one off by heart because i was the one who kept hassling john for it and was very grateful when he put it in to shut me up ;-) > 3./ I have a 10 gig drive that I have put into my server dedicated for > FreeBSD, so this will have the cvsup for ports, freebsd-current and if there > is enough space, the ports/distfiles (I think this is 4gig?). I am using ports/distfiles is about 15G here. and ports/local-distfiles is some more. > rsync to grab this data, but unfortunately I cannot see any -current folder > on any of the ftp's I have looked at in NZ, does anyone know where I could > get this as I don't want all the old versions too. The distfiles shouldn't i am not sure what you mean. a -current of what ? ports ? distfiles ? > be a problem for me to grab as these are all situated in one folder. regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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