From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 21 4:56: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns5.pacific.net.au (ns5.pacific.net.au [203.143.252.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26FA437B718 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 04:55:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mckay@thehub.com.au) Received: from dungeon.home (ppp152.dyn248.pacific.net.au [203.143.248.152]) by ns5.pacific.net.au (8.9.0/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA29534; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 23:54:51 +1100 (EST) Received: from dungeon.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dungeon.home (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2LBi1911828; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:44:01 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from mckay) Message-Id: <200103211144.f2LBi1911828@dungeon.home> To: Ulf Zimmermann Cc: current@freebsd.org, mckay@thehub.com.au, "Michael C . Wu" , Vladimir Kushnir Subject: Re: Whatever happened to CTM? References: <20010319183444.B42390@peorth.iteration.net> <20010319170118.H38843@seven.alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <20010319170118.H38843@seven.alameda.net> from Ulf Zimmermann at "Tue, 20 Mar 2001 01:01:18 +0000" Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:44:00 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 20th March 2001, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: >On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 04:53:33PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> On 20-Mar-01 Michael C . Wu wrote: >> > For all connections greater than 9600baud modems, we recommend >> > using CVSup to get src-all and ports-all updated. At the worst case, >> > be able to CVSup a ports-all collection within an hour, with heavy >> > packet loss and low bandwidth. >> > >> > i.e. CTM sucks, don't use it. :) On the contrary, I prefer CTM over CVSup, even on a fast connection (which I don't currently have). On a slow or intermittent connection, CTM beats CVSup by a large margin. >> cvsup is not available via e-mail for those who may only have e-mail access >> for one reason or another. Firewalls make CTM style delivery essential. (No, Stefan, I don't like your tunneling idea. :-) >I have been hosting the machine which ran ctm, And many thanks indeed for your service! >unfortunatly my provider >cut me off and I just got some access back, but not for the location >the ctm machine is located at. > >At this time I do not know yet when it will have access again. Surely FreeBSD Inc (or whatever it is that owns the freebsd.org machines) could spring for a box. Assuming Ulf is still keen, it shouldn't be too hard for him to remote administer it. Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message