Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:44:44 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com> Cc: aa@ba.su.se (Anders Ahrsjo), jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: What Europen sites mirrors directly from freebsd.org? Message-ID: <199506081444.QAA24571@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 1995 10:14:34 %2B0200." <17160.802512874@westhill.cdrom.com>
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> >Many Europen mirrors are real old (well at least a day). > >How does the chain of mirrors look like? What site in Europe get it first? > We have no control over when people mirror our site - when they run > the mirror software is up to them - they ftp the stuff from us, we > don't send it to them. Last I looked, src.doc.ic.ac.uk was fairly up > to date, although that can (and will) change day to day. Whether mirror or sup, it's probably started by a crontab. Could each of the people listed in share/FAQ/Text/MIRROR.SITES perhaps update an informational crontab string in MIRROR.SITES (every few months, or when their site update chronology changes) ? Such info would perhaps a) enable the mirror sites to balance out peaks, b) reduce temptation to normal folk, to got to ftp.freebsd.org. Julian S
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