Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:49:56 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portsnap mirror servers Message-ID: <20060418004956.GA15903@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0604171743y33af6355udf750eca65605920@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:43:52AM +0100, Chris wrote: > How many mirrors does portsnap have, it seems to only have around 3 or > 4 and they all located in the .us whilst cvs has dozens around the > world. > > Is there a eu pool of mirrors available to use or if not is their a > way I can apply to host an eu mirror or even 2 eu mirrors. According to Colin's writeup here: http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/funding.html > Right now [the mirroring code] uses around one thousand times more > bandwidth than an individual client machine; as a result, I've been > asking people to use the existing mirrors rather than creating their > own, but for a variety of reasons this isn't ideal for everybody. Hopefully that will be fixed this summer and then we'll have lots of mirrors. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFERDezXY6L6fI4GtQRAjNEAJ9Er0NY1zYpxIx93pJnkjyIKu8LcACggpqQ 2r4JyriawMHg29dkdWs7ms4= =cQz0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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