Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:24:56 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: New Site in the TLD (replacing ftp3.freebsd.org) Message-ID: <20030715142456.GB11840@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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I think I'm ready to deal with the disappearance of ftp3.freebsd.org now. It stopped carrying FreeBSD a while ago and at the time we just shifted it to point at the ISC site. We decided to start using us.freebsd.org for sites in the United States and the TLD will be the "best" of the sites regardless of where they are. We're not ready to create us.freebsd.org yet but we did get started on the infrastructure for that. My thought was that we would try to make sure that only Tier-1 sites land in the TLD. That way during releases re@ could tell the beta testers (people interested in the "pre-Release Builds") that they would be best off checking sites in the TLD first, but when it comes to the full-blown release the Release Announcement would not make that sort of distinction. So, if that's acceptable to everyone the criteria for sites in the TLD would be something along the lines of: - Tier-1 site, bits posted to ftp-master wind up copied to this site within a day, two days max - Allow reasonably large number of concurrent anonymous connects - Good network connectivity on a global scale (e.g. not at the end of a "small pipe" leading into their country and a "fat pipe" inside their country - both pipes should be fat :-). If you would like to nominate a site please send a message to me. I want to apologize in advance in case there are multiple nominations. By the nature of this the decision will wind up based somewhat on the various sites' "qualifications". But in the end there may be several sites all equally qualified and I'm gonna wind up flipping coins or something along those lines... Please don't be offended if you nominate your site and a different one gets chosen. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |
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