From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 17 07:27:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA20200 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 07:27:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA20194 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 07:27:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA27070; Fri, 17 May 1996 08:27:01 -0600 Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 08:27:01 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199605171427.IAA27070@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Taavi Talvik Cc: Richard Wackerbarth , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Standard Shipping Containers - A Proposal for Distributing FreeBSD In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I am trying to mirror FreeBSD distributions for ftp.ee.freebsd.org. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm assuming you meant 'ftp.freebsd.org'. > So far i not very successful in keeping my server up to date. This is not FreeBSD's fault, but the fault of the Internet as a whole. In particulr, all of cdrom.com goes off-line 3-4 times/day because Sprint's router at CIX melts down, and it takes a couple hours for it to come back up. This is *silly*, and I have placed several trouble tickets with Sprint with regard to this problem. I understand that these sorts of problems are common throughout the Internet, which just isn't capable of withstanding the growth/BW it has seen in the last 12 months. > For example last nite mirror retrieved onlyabout 50 files before ftp > server went away. Restarting means retreieving another 30M of directory > listing... If you can, can you break the mirror script down into multiple targets. That way you can at least update it incrementally, rather than trying to get everything in on shot? Nate