Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 00:31:03 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more automated fetch of ISO-IMAGES & ports Message-ID: <20090408001501.Y14708@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <200904071233.n37CXHAH008723@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <200904071233.n37CXHAH008723@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Julian Stacey wrote: > Hi stable@ people, > Ref my: > > Found manually on > > ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2 > > but slow at 60 KB/s > > Faster @ 100K from USA > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2 > > but I'd feel guilty loading main site & intercontinental band width. > > Erwin Lansing emailed me off list: > > ... Are you sure you hit the US mirror? ftp.freebsd.org is a DNS round > > robin between a US and a danish mirror, so my guess would be that > > if you'd have hit the danish one, it would have been faster. ... > > Thanks Erwin, You're right, nslookup: > Name: ftp.freebsd.org > Address: 87.51.34.132 > Address: 204.152.184.73 > For me in Munich Germany the Danish mirror > 87.51.34.132 ftp.beastie.tdk.net. > is 10 times faster than USA. > 204.152.184.73 freebsd.isc.org. > > But I wouldn't want to load Denmark needlessly either, so look > forward to reading follow up I see starting re. bitorrent & > fastest_cvsup etc. Thanks all ! http://www.mavetju.org/unix/freebsd-mirrors/ usually works for me .. doesn't show RTT or bandwidth directly, but Edwin might even share his secret recipe, offered enough $beer .. The 10 day score overview indeed shows .de mirrors improving yesterday from a not so hot score recently, and 7.2-BETA only on a few so far. cheers, Ian
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