Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:55:54 +0200 From: "Willie Viljoen" <will@unfoldings.net> To: "Shantanoo Mahajan" <freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net>, "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Rob <nospam@users.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: Why no FreeBSD ftp site in India? Message-ID: <00d601c3b9c6$b2754980$0a00a8c0@arista> References: <20031203093342.GB17754@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20031203133358.GA677@dhumketu.homeunix.net>
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> The Universities/Institutes which can provide bandwidth for this > purpose are IIT's and IISc. IISc is hosting sunsite and also has the > debian mirror. AFAIK, no one has FreeBSD mirror. > > the only Indian site regading BSD I know is www.bsd-india.org > > Shantanoo Sadly, it is up to an institution hoping to host a mirror site to come forward and offer the space and bandwidth. The FreeBSD developers can't really go around asking people to host several gigabytes and dedicate big bandwidth, they would just think they are rude :) If you can convince someone from an IT department at your local university to get space and bandwidth, they should get in touch with the FreeBSD project, they should be able to find the addresses they need at http://www.FreeBSD.org/ Here in South Africa, we do not have many university IT departments that are seriously interested in any open source software. The only universities that provide large mirrors with lots of software are those operated by the Rhodes University Computer User Society, and by the University of Stellenbosch. These are limited though, they only carry some versions, and as far as I remember, Stellenbosch do not mirror ISO images. We are lucky however, to have a big ISP that seem to be committed to helping the cause. Internet Solution provide a full FreeBSD mirror including the latest ISOs. They also mirror most other popular open source software. Most people seem to think this was made possible because of IS's employees internally deciding to provide the mirrors, out of good will. Others speculate that it was to counter the incredible bandwidth usage caused by downloading ISOs, South Africa still has very slow international lines, so our ISPs mirror a lot of larger sites to try and keep international traffic within acceptable levels. For that kind of situation to occur though, you would either need an insider at a big ISP, or enough users to drive the ISPs up the wall with legitimate international bandwidth requirements that exceed what they can provide. Most ISPs in developing countries (I use those here in SA as an example) will go to absolutely any length to avoid having to buy bigger lines, especially international lines. Will
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