From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 21 10:50:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA12669 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:50:23 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA12664 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:50:21 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA00478; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:49:03 -0800 To: Ollivier Robert cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1.0-RELEASE now available! In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Nov 1995 19:36:12 +0100." <199511211836.TAA06555@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:49:03 -0800 Message-ID: <476.816979743@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > If you want french-speaking equivalent of freebsd-* lists, I don't think > there is enough interest/people for that (I may be wrong of course but if > fr.comp.os.bsd is an indication I'm right). In fact I want to be wrong > > If you want a mailing-list exploder in France for french people or even > most of european users, I may be able to set this up. I have a > well-connected machine with CPU power and disk to put a majordomo on. It is > an HP with a 2 MBps line on RENATER (French Academic Network). RENATER has > a 4 Mbps (probably a little more in a few weeks/months) with the US albeit > pretty overloaded. Well, I'll take whatever I can get! :-) > We have already at least two FTP mirrors in France for ftp.freebsd.org > (ftp.ibp.fr and ftp.univ-lyon1.fr, I'll have to check the second). Do you have a DNS server that could manage fr.freebsd.org so that you can set up things like ftp .. ftp yourself? I'm thinking more and more that there should be a regional name server for each domain, administered locally. That's now we've done .it and will probably do .br shortly as well. Jordan