Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 13:16:55 -0400 From: "John M. Sellens" <jmsellen@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ftp.ca.freebsd.org no longer available? Message-ID: <96Jul30.131655edt.20596-3@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>
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I tried to get some stuff from ftp.ca.freebsd.org last night, and it's no longer publically available (see below). You may wish to take it off your list of mirror sites. Thanks for all your hard work! John | From addata.com!radye Tue Jul 30 10:23:59 1996 | X-Sender: radye@pop.synapse.net | To: "John M. Sellens" <jmsellen@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> | From: Robert Adye <radye@addata.com> | Subject: Re: freebsd? | | At 12:33 AM 7/30/96 -0400, John M. Sellens wrote: | >I ftp'd to ftp.ca.freebsd.org which ended up being conductor.synapse.net. | > | >I noticed that pub/FreeBSD seems to be mode 750 | > drwxr-x--- 17 0 200 1024 Jul 29 03:04 FreeBSD | >which surprised me a little, since it serves to prevent anonymous | >ftp users from accessing the freebsd stuff. | > | >Was this intentional? | > | >Thanks! | > | > | | | Yes, it is intentional, we had to limit external (non synapse.net users) | access to our mirrors because of the enormous bandwidth be used to access | the mirrors. The TUCOWS winsock archive was taking over forty percent of | our T1 pipe. We will be removing the mirror altogether soon in order to | recover drive space. | | | | Cheers.........Robert | | | Robert Adye | Director Customer / Technical Support | Synapse.net | Synapse Internet [Gatineau, Quebec, Canada] | | Interneters do it on the highway. | |
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