From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 25 10:19:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7761504E for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:19:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) Received: from broad-208-049 (broad-208-049.rh.uchicago.edu [128.135.208.49]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA14388; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:19:14 -0600 (CST) From: charon@freethought.org Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000125121223.00b36100@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu> X-Sender: dbsypher@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:19:09 -0600 To: Bill Swingle Subject: Re: connectivity problems with current.freebsd.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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