Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:19:09 -0600 From: charon@freethought.org To: Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connectivity problems with current.freebsd.org Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000125121223.00b36100@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000125010340.A19603@dub.net> References: <4.2.2.20000124233054.00b81e00@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu> <4.2.2.20000124233054.00b81e00@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu>
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At 01:03 AM 1/25/00 -0800, Bill Swingle wrote: >On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 11:43:59PM -0600, charon@freethought.org wrote: > > By chance, playing around with the fact that current.freebsd.org is an > > alias for usw2.freebsd.org, I found that usw3.freebsd.org (209.180.6.227) > > mirrors snapshots as well. Perhaps something should be added to the > > /snapshots readme.txt on ftp.freebsd.org about the fact that > > current.freebsd.org has mirrors. That said, I've gotten the same error > > from usw3 as from usw2. > >I can't really speak to your download problems but it should be noted >that usw2 and usw3 are in the same facility at USWest, in fact they're >probably in the very same rack as each other. Noting that this other >'mirror' is available would not do much good as they both sit on the >exact same bandwidth. I'm sure this is a silly question, but then why does usw3 appear to _be_ a mirror? Why have usw3 at all? -David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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