From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 10:27:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B790B106567C for ; Sun, 25 May 2008 10:27:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5385E8FC16 for ; Sun, 25 May 2008 10:27:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=milibyte.co.uk) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1K0DRR-0002xu-C6; Sun, 25 May 2008 11:27:05 +0100 Received: by milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K0DRQ-0000aZ-Ge; Sun, 25 May 2008 11:27:04 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: Chris Whitehouse , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 11:27:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <48389A1D.9010201@onetel.com> <20080524230414.GA5679@shepherd> In-Reply-To: <20080524230414.GA5679@shepherd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805251127.04215.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: 567bd3fc48e627f399ce8c1a6276a608 Cc: Subject: Re: where is FreeBSD on ftp.uk.freebsd.org? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 10:27:07 -0000 On Sunday 25 May 2008, Sahil Tandon wrote: > * Chris Whitehouse [05-24-2008]: > > Also UK is not in the list of countries at > > http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php. > > Several UK mirrors listed here: > > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/mirr= ors-ftp.html Unfortunately most of these don't appear to be functional. I've tried to=20 access /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ on them with very limited success. ftp.uk.freebsd.org =3D> ftp.plig.net Failed - /pub/FreeBSD doesn't exist ftp2.uk.freebsd.org =3D> ftp.mirrorservice.org OK ftp3.uk.freebsd.org =3D> 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 =3D> sunsite.org.uk Failed - Destination Host Unreachable ftp5.uk.freebsd.org =3D> karma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Failed - no response ftp6.uk.freebsd.org =3D> storm.freebsd.org.uk Failed - /pub/FreeBSD doesn't exist Of the 6 mirrors, ftp2.uk.freebsd.org looks like the only usable one.=20 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=20 too. The home page at www.uk.freebsd.org doesn't appear to have been=20 updated for over a year, the production release is shown as 6.2 and the=20 latest security patch is listed as 2007-02-09. The main FreeBSD site shows a couple of UK=20 mirrors in it's drop-down list, United Kingdom/1 and United Kingdom/2,=20 which resolve to www1.uk.freebsd.org and www3.uk.freebsd.org=20 respectively. Currently www1 appears to be down but www3 appears to be=20 OK. I appreciate that www.uk.freebsd.org isn't listed as a mirror on the=20 main web site but it's the one many people might intuitively try to use=20 and it's a pity that it will give them such an out of date view of=20 =46reeBSD. =2D-=20 Mike Clarke