From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 31 15:48:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA13720 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:48:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA13715 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:48:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA25106 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:48:51 -0800 (PST) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: U.S. Mirrors wanted [was "Jim Barrett": FreeBSD Mirrors] Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:48:51 -0800 Message-ID: <25102.878341731@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jim has identified a growing problem with our U.S. mirror sites and thus I figured I'd cite his posting in support of a request I'd like to make at this time for more FreeBSD mirrors at well-connected and reasonably useful (e.g. at least 50-100 anonymous FTP users allowed) sites. Any takers? Please read http://www.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD before volunteering as it contains important prerequisite information which you may wish to consider before stepping forward. Thanks! Jordan ------- Forwarded Message From: "Jim Barrett" To: Subject: FreeBSD Mirrors Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 17:26:20 -0500 Message-Id: <01bce64c$038ce6c0$4681d2cc@default.stny.lrun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 There seems to be a problem with the US mirror sites for FreeBSD. In the past, I have found them to be quite reliable - but that no longer seems to be the case. ftp 4, 5 and 6 are off-line completely. I'm getting DNS look-up failures on these three sites from 4 different ISP's. ftp 2 and 3 are on-line, but neither is complete. ftp2 has the base installation binaries for 2.2.5-RELEASE, but lacks the XFree86-3.3.1 distribution. ftp3 does not have 2.2.5-RELEASE at all... it appears that there have been no file updates at this site since Sept 30th. Any word on when (or if) ftp 4 5 or 6 will return to active status? Regards, Jim Barrett info@weny.com ------- End of Forwarded Message