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Date:      Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:00:58 +0100
From:      Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   INDEX on mirrors
Message-ID:  <49B8EB6A.6080303@bsdforen.de>

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It seems that ftp.freebsd.org does load balancing and not all
servers are in sync. I have repeatedly downloaded:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-7-stable/INDEX
And there seem to be 2 versions around, one from February 27 and
one from March 06.

I have a shell script that connects to the ftp via netcat and
compares the age of the file to a local copy. If the local
copy is outdated a fetch is started.

Nice idea to safe traffic, but useless if you get the same
outdated file, because servers are not in sync.



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