From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 25 12:58:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD96D1503D for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:58:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA09375; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 21:58:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 21:58:45 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001252058.VAA09375@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connectivity problems with current.freebsd.org X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-current In-Reply-To: <86jouu$38i$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Swingle wrote in list.freebsd-current: > 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. FWIW, we're mirroring the most recent snapshots at ftp7.de.freebsd.org. There's also a nice page listing all mirror sites of FreeBSD releases and snapshots: http://www.itworks.com.au/~gavin/FBSDsites.php3 Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message