Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 12:04:42 +0800 From: Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> To: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CC.freebsd.org mirrors still relevant? Message-ID: <B8DC9826-AD64-49D7-98B8-15DED0005796@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGv8uarnrUiEtZA=VW2tFJiFdq_g=UGP6P6UkQ5erc4_5btTUQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGv8uarnrUiEtZA=VW2tFJiFdq_g=UGP6P6UkQ5erc4_5btTUQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2024-05-27 15:14:55 (+0800), John Hay wrote:
> I have been the za.freebsd.org and internat.freebsd.org dns guy and
> also
> maintaining an ftp server under it for a long time.
Thank you John. :-)
> Over the years, newer services like pkg and freebsd-update were
> developed
> and they do not use it, but use a dns geolocation system. Even the
> main
> www.freebsd.org and ftp.freebsd.org dns has been geolocated and here
> it is
> pointing to a server that seems to be hosted at one of the big peering
> points in South Africa (za). The connectivity looks good. It has both
> IPv6
> and IPv4 addresses. File transfers are at ~100MiB/s.
>
> So I think the question is, does it still make sense to host the
> country
> code mirrors and dns?
>
> Maybe there are other areas or countries that are not so "lucky"?
We (clusteradm) have been actively trying to phase out the cc.f.o
mirrors in favour of our own CDN with clusteradm-managed mirrors. While
the asynchronous cc.f.o mirrors served us well in the 1990s and early
2000s, our synchronised CDN is a better fit for the world we currently
live in.
Currently we have 14 sites around the world. We could use more. We
only have one mirror in Africa at JINX.
If anyone wants to provide a {download,pkg,www}.FreeBSD.org site, please
get in touch. We're particularly keen to hear from sites who can
provide hardware as well as connectivity.
Philip
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