Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 01:00:47 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where is FreeBSD on ftp.uk.freebsd.org? Message-ID: <483B4F2F.2070201@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <200805251127.04215.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> References: <48389A1D.9010201@onetel.com> <20080524230414.GA5679@shepherd> <200805251127.04215.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk>
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Mike Clarke wrote: > On Sunday 25 May 2008, Sahil Tandon wrote: > >> * Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> [05-24-2008]: >>> Also UK is not in the list of countries at >>> http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php. >> Several UK mirrors listed here: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html > > Unfortunately most of these don't appear to be functional. I've tried to > access /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ on them with very limited success. > > ftp.uk.freebsd.org => ftp.plig.net > Failed - /pub/FreeBSD doesn't exist So does anyone know if plig is coming back? Or out of curiosity why it is not? (It's been 'my' server ever since I started using FreeBSD). Chris > ftp2.uk.freebsd.org => ftp.mirrorservice.org > OK > ftp3.uk.freebsd.org => ftp.demon.net > Failed - Incomplete mirror > ftp> cd pub/FreeBSD > 250 CWD command successful. > ftp> dir > 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||52865|) > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list > -r--rw-r-- 1 root archives 6254 Nov 5 2002 README.TXT > drwxr-xr-x 2 root archives 4096 Oct 24 2004 TrustedBSD > -r--rw-r-- 1 root archives 20645 Feb 5 2004 dir.sizes > 226 Transfer complete. > ftp4.uk.freebsd.org => sunsite.org.uk > Failed - Destination Host Unreachable > ftp5.uk.freebsd.org => karma.freebsd-uk.eu.org > Failed - no response > ftp6.uk.freebsd.org => storm.freebsd.org.uk > Failed - /pub/FreeBSD doesn't exist > > Of the 6 mirrors, ftp2.uk.freebsd.org looks like the only usable one. > That's what I've been using for quite a while now with no problems. > > The situation with UK mirrors for the FreeBSD website is quite messy > too. The home page at www.uk.freebsd.org doesn't appear to have been > updated for over a year, the production release is shown as 6.2 and the > latest security patch is listed as 2007-02-09. > > The main FreeBSD site <http://www.freebsd.org/> shows a couple of UK > mirrors in it's drop-down list, United Kingdom/1 and United Kingdom/2, > which resolve to www1.uk.freebsd.org and www3.uk.freebsd.org > respectively. Currently www1 appears to be down but www3 appears to be > OK. > > I appreciate that www.uk.freebsd.org isn't listed as a mirror on the > main web site but it's the one many people might intuitively try to use > and it's a pity that it will give them such an out of date view of > FreeBSD. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1464 - Release Date: 5/24/2008 8:56 AM
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