From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 26 1:26:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2596437B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 01:26:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14sh6t-000EPk-00; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:26:47 +0000 To: Jordan Hubbard , MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: Problems getting 4.3 release iso images Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:26:47 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@wkb@freebie.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 161.114.88.75 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Michael VanLoon > Subject: Problems getting 4.3 release iso images > Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:11:16 -0700 > > > I don't mean to be too critical of you guys, because I know you work > > hard and are busy, but... > > > > 4.3R might have gone a bit smoother if you had actually pushed it out to > > all your mirrors before announcing it. > > As I thought had already made abundantly clear, the real issue was > ftp.freesoftware.com (AKA ftp.freebsd.org) going off the air on the > same day the release was scheduled to happen. The outtage came > completely without warning and people were already going to > ftp.freebsd.org to check for the release since the date was > well-publicized in advance. Given that there was no ETA for when (or > even if) ftp.freesoftware.com would come back up, actually delaying Maybe a long shot: isn't there a way to have a temporary master ftp server setup at (say) Yahoo that the official mirrors (and *only* the official mirrors) can grab their stuff from? Currently there are a lot of dogs fighting for a single bone and (at least to me) this does not appear to be too productive. Related question: is there an alpha 4.3R .iso as well? I have not been able to check for obvious reasons. x86 version I have here, and I'm helping out people locally by cutting them a CD. tnx -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message