From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 9 12:17:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17B45106567A for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 12:17:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.server1.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [82.193.243.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C90538FC13 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 12:17:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mobileKamikaze.norad (vpn-cl-162-46.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [141.3.162.46]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.server1.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6E8947E8CB; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:17:38 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4CD93BE1.6070705@bsdforen.de> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:17:37 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101028 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org, FTP References: <4CD91428.5090002@bsdforen.de> <20101109095110.GG2741@daedalus.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <20101109095110.GG2741@daedalus.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: /pub/FreeBSD or /FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:17:40 -0000 On 09/11/2010 10:51, Carsten Otto wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:28:08AM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> Is there an official policy for the mirror layout? > > We (ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de) serve /pub/FreeBSD although we do not > use this layout for the other projects. I guess we did this because of > some official policy. I think I might have made a mistake here. I checked again and my estimate for half the servers was a) grossly exaggerated and b) the issue is more present over http. Those don't work: http://ftp.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ http://ftp3.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ http://ftp4.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ http://ftp6.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ (no HTTP at all) These work: ftp://ftp.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp3.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp6.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ So, I have three distinct problems with half the German mirrors, two offer /pub/FreeBSD only through FTP, but not HTTP. One (ftp4.de) does not offer /pub/FreeBSD at all. And one does not offer HTTP access, so if I switched back to FTP, 3 quarters of my problem would disappear and I'd have 8 working mirrors instead of 5 out of 9. So I should probably justify my use of HTTP: - Less latency (important for small downloads) - 8-stable/All/automounter-1.4.3.tbz with the same connection: HTTP: 0.20s, 0.20s, 0.20s FTP: 0.39s, 0.62s, 0.39s, 0.39s (I'd throw the 0.62s away as a glitch) - It needs 77 packages to install firefox, 70 of these are below 1.5m, which is a small file by broadband standards, i.e. for 90% of the packages latency is an important parameter - Only one connection per file instead of two (a server can run out of ports twice as fast with FTP), unless I am very mistaken about how HTTP and FTP work Regards -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?