Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:29:33 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Incredibly slow mirror site Message-ID: <1159954173.25828.2.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4522F7C7.7090705@rogers.com> References: <4256BB8CAC97017A8BF293DE@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20061003225950.GA53790@icarus.home.lan> <4522F7C7.7090705@rogers.com>
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--=-M5hdm6jPrQyRBUBoewu0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 19:52 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:48:11PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > =20 > >> I'm building kde3 from ports, and the koffice install attempts to down= load=20 > >> the tar.bz2 file from ftp.scarlet.be. The download is about 2 BYTES p= er=20 > >> second! > >> > >> I stopped the download and fetched the file from somewhere else. > >> > >> Maybe someone should check that site? > >> > >> Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > >> Adjunct Information Security Officer > >> The University of Texas at Dallas > >> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ > >> =20 > > > > I can confirm this. Passive vs. active FTP doesn't matter either. > > Would the owner of this mirror please take ownership? > > > > =20 >=20 > The problem i think is that many ports with multiple mirrors will use=20 > mirrors from 3rd world countries first, and the mirrors with real=20 > bandwidth will always be last on the list. Can anyone explain to me why=20 > that is? Doesn't it make more sense to try the fastest one first? Belgium =3D=3D Third world? Now that's new :-) --=20 Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer --=-M5hdm6jPrQyRBUBoewu0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFI379MxEkbVFH3PQRAttpAJ9CWqIrEkgTvLIXwAS/DhtzlrJIiACdFqEB HErl8EZ2E2kn+D4stKO2PwY= =sEgA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-M5hdm6jPrQyRBUBoewu0--
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