From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 18 00:49:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A47E16A400 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:49:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB28943D45 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:49:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k3I0nuxW016387; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:49:56 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id k3I0nuvI016386; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:49:56 -0700 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:49:56 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Chris Message-ID: <20060418004956.GA15903@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <3aaaa3a0604171743y33af6355udf750eca65605920@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0604171743y33af6355udf750eca65605920@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: portsnap mirror servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:49:57 -0000 --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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 --=20 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 --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFERDezXY6L6fI4GtQRAjNEAJ9Er0NY1zYpxIx93pJnkjyIKu8LcACggpqQ 2r4JyriawMHg29dkdWs7ms4= =cQz0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9--