Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:33:02 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> To: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.ru> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here's a radical idea... Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970224162840.5851A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970224183048.529B-100000@nagual.ru>
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On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, [KOI8-R] Андрей Чернов wrote: > Fallback to ftp.freebsd.org clearly indicates error (old version not > available or even deleted from master site) and you want to make this > error as default case masking the real problem. I vote NO. The handbook's guide mentions that someone is planning to add support for auto-determination of the nearest ftp site. Perhaps it would be better to add this support rather than try working around the problem of bad ftp sites. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk
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