From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 23 17:16:29 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F0516A419 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:16:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from raven.bwct.de (raven.bwct.de [85.159.14.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1856E13C48A for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:16:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de ([10.1.1.7]) by raven.bwct.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l9NHG8bW091643; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:16:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [10.1.1.14]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l9NHFvYJ050436 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:15:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l9NHFv6m060845; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:15:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) id l9NHFuxH060844; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:15:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:15:56 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Aristedes Maniatis Message-ID: <20071023171555.GJ46533@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <1193106060.82079.19.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <67ABA706-5207-4FFD-AE76-FAC4305F0EC2@ish.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <67ABA706-5207-4FFD-AE76-FAC4305F0EC2@ish.com.au> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.4-STABLE alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, AWL=0.009, BAYES_00=-2.599 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on cicely12.cicely.de Cc: Ken Smith , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-BETA1 Available, 6.3-BETA1 coming soon... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:16:29 -0000 On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:59:08PM +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > > On 23/10/2007, at 12:21 PM, Ken Smith wrote: > > >We have entered the final phases of the FreeBSD-7.0 Release cycle > >which > >also means the beginning of the FreeBSD-6.3 Release cycle. > > > Naturally this is putting considerable load on the main cvsup server > at the moment and it isn't easy to get access to cvsup.freebsd.org. > However some weeks ago I reported a problem where the Australian > mirror was returning incorrect files, so I don't really trust the > mirroring system at the moment. > > Is there some safety in using the primary mirrors cvsup[0-9] > +.freebsd.org? Which ones can be 100% relied upon to be up to date? > Is there some way of verifying that a particular server is up to date > and reliable? There is no structural difference between cvsup.* and cvsup[0-9].*. They all mirror from cvsup-master more or less often. Some mirror from local non public cvsup-master mirrors, but this doesn't add more risk to the reliability, since they are used so often that a failure of one of them gets noticed and repaired quite fast. It seems that this is a local problem with australian FreeBSD group not keeping that much care about their local mirrors. We have had some major failures and non reachable admins in germany as well, but after some resonable timeout the domain admins just took the required steps to take them out of public access. > Is there a more appropriate infrastructure mailing list to raise this > issue on? Normaly cvsup admins should read hubs@freebsd.org. As Ruslan pointed out there is also the admin list documented. If everything fails you can also ask domain athoritives, which is dawes at xfree86.org according to SOA record of au.freebsd.org. -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de support@fizon.de