Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:52:21 -0800
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au>,  FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Update should be back to normal
Message-ID:  <4966F425.8060001@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <D355FA21-030D-434C-BF8D-A06A2BB95252@ish.com.au>
References:  <49665FEF.6030808@freebsd.org> <D355FA21-030D-434C-BF8D-A06A2BB95252@ish.com.au>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> 
> On 09/01/2009, at 7:19 AM, Colin Percival wrote:
> 
>> 2. Assuming the first mirror still fails, use the -s option to pick a 
>> different
>> mirror.
> 
> Where can we find a list of mirrors?

The list of is distributed via DNS SRV records:
# host -t srv _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org
prints a list of the mirrors (currently update1 through update4, but that
is subject to change).

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4966F425.8060001>