Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:29:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Lanny Baron <lnb@cybertouch.org> To: Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexandre Nuernberg <berg@telesc.net.br> Subject: Re: how to became a mirror afiliate? Message-ID: <XFMail.990519152956.lnb@cybertouch.org> In-Reply-To: <19990519183029.RZSZ7623210.mta2-rme@wocker>
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Hi, I tried to mirror FreeBSD and got tons of errors. I think you should ask Jordan Hubbard. He would not let me mirror FreeBSD. However, I manage to mirror SAMBA for Canada very well thank you :-) I guess some have faith in an old F_rt like me :-) Lanny Baron On 19-May-99 Dan Langille wrote: > On 19 May 99, at 11:37, Alexandre Nuernberg wrote: > >> i would like to know what are the requirements to be a mirro site of >> freebsd.org and what are the hardware requirements for this mirror? > > I'm guessing. > > I'd say the requirements are to have something from the ftp site mirrored > if you want to be an FTP site. Probably the latest release at a minimum. > To be a www mirror, you'd need the www files. > > I've never hardware requirements mentioned. An ftp server needs very > little grunt. A 486 with a bunch of disk space will do it. > > I'd just go ahead and start up a mirror. To my knowledge, you don't need > any "official" permission to do that. Once it's up and running, start > telling people about it. > -- > Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited > The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ > NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ > The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Lanny Baron <lnb@cybertouch.org> Date: 19-May-99 Time: 15:28:11 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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