Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 21:49:12 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: jasonak@direct.ca Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [jasonak@direct.ca: How to become a FreeBSD mirror?] Message-ID: <19990515095122.DTVJ7623210.mta2-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <19990515002230.06620@panke.de.freebsd.org>
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On 15 May 99, at 0:22, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > Greetings, Hi ya! My only credentials are that I run one of the ftp mirrors under nz.freebsd.org and www.nz.freebsd.org. Apart from that, I know little abour running mirrors. > Internet Direct is interested in offering an FTP mirror for FreeBSD. WOO HOO! The more the better! > Could you provide me with details on how this can be accomplished? What I did is documented at http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/mirror.htm but looking at that URL now, I think it's wrong. If memory serves, I actually installed cvsup-mirror-1.0, not mirror. I use rsync to keep the ftp mirror in sync. Everything else is covered by the cvsup-mirror port. One important thing about ftp mirrors: it's good to be standard. That allows your distributions to be listed at http://www.itworks.com.au/~gavin/FBSDsites.php3 which I consider to be a valuable resource. To get something like ftp?.ca.freebsd.org, you should find out who administers ca.freebsd.org and contact them. A quick dig: # dig ca.freebsd.org ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> ca.freebsd.org ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; ca.freebsd.org, type = A, class = IN ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ca.freebsd.org. 1D IN SOA gw.esys.ca. hostmaster.ca.freebsd.org. ( So I'd tried hostmaster@esys.ca and see what you get. > Our > connectivity consists of DS-3s to UUNet and Sprint and OC-3 peering with > the regional CA*netII GigaPOP here in Vancouver, British Columbia. FWIW, nobody ever asked me what my connectivity was. Now I'm afraid they will...<grin> -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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