From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 19 12:30:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freedom.cybertouch.org (freedom.cybertouch.org [216.183.4.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D645414D57 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 12:30:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lnb@freedom.cybertouch.org) Received: (from lnb@localhost) by freedom.cybertouch.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA12431; Wed, 19 May 1999 15:29:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990519183029.RZSZ7623210.mta2-rme@wocker> Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:29:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Lanny Baron To: Dan Langille Subject: Re: how to became a mirror afiliate? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexandre Nuernberg Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I tried to mirror FreeBSD and got tons of errors. I think you should ask Jordan Hubbard. He would not let me mirror FreeBSD. However, I manage to mirror SAMBA for Canada very well thank you :-) I guess some have faith in an old F_rt like me :-) Lanny Baron On 19-May-99 Dan Langille wrote: > On 19 May 99, at 11:37, Alexandre Nuernberg wrote: > >> i would like to know what are the requirements to be a mirro site of >> freebsd.org and what are the hardware requirements for this mirror? > > I'm guessing. > > I'd say the requirements are to have something from the ftp site mirrored > if you want to be an FTP site. Probably the latest release at a minimum. > To be a www mirror, you'd need the www files. > > I've never hardware requirements mentioned. An ftp server needs very > little grunt. A 486 with a bunch of disk space will do it. > > I'd just go ahead and start up a mirror. To my knowledge, you don't need > any "official" permission to do that. Once it's up and running, start > telling people about it. > -- > Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited > The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ > NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ > The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Lanny Baron Date: 19-May-99 Time: 15:28:11 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message