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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:08:38 +0200
From:      Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Poor state of some top-level FTP mirrors
Message-ID:  <20030310170837.GA21676@nevermind.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20030309215448.GB30033@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <20030309215448.GB30033@dragon.nuxi.com>

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Hello, David O'Brien!

On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:54:48PM -0800, you wrote:

> In my never ending quest to find an alternate ftp site for "pkg_add -r",
> I've tried many of our ftpX.freebsd.org mirrors.  The problem is the
> mirrors only seem to be consistent for short periods of time.
> 
> As a simple test, the documented mirrors was polled for the file
> ftp://${SITE}/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All/bonnie++-1.93.03.tgz
> which was updated on ftp.freebsd.org 2-March-2003.
> 
> I am most concerned about ftp1-14.freebsd.org and ftp.<country> as those
> are the "top level" mirrors.
> 
> Summary:    53 bad, 25 unknown problem, 57 good.
> 
> Bad sites:
> 
[dd]
> ftp.ua.FreeBSD.org
[dd]
> ftp2.ua.FreeBSD.org

Those 2 above actually single site.

> Unknown problem:
>  
> ftp5.ua.FreeBSD.org skipped: Net::FTP: Socket is not connected

This one only offers access from Ukrain (due to high cost and slowness
of outer world link). 

> Good sites:
> 
> ftp7.br.FreeBSD.org
> ftp7.jp.FreeBSD.org
> ftp7.kr.FreeBSD.org

ftp7.ua.freebsd.org should be in this line. It is being updated hourly
from ftp-master.cz.freebsd.org (the .eu regional ftp-master for now).

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