Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 09:48:26 +0000 From: ykla <yklaxds@gmail.com> To: d@delphij.net Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org, rawrence lu <rawrence@gmail.com>, USTCLUG <lug@ustc.edu.cn> Subject: Re: Mirrors in China Message-ID: <CA%2BPGaYBwxMBqGD%2BoyqW97anaKz3V8sto0UZO0UV%2BZLouuHkV1Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e047a22f-cbec-167a-592c-b816b97cc6c2@delphij.net> References: <CA%2BPGaYAe7Ng0%2BRcUDP8b7W1nZZ28ExTFEzzSA8k3MySxSa1fKA@mail.gmail.com> <e047a22f-cbec-167a-592c-b816b97cc6c2@delphij.net>
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Linux User Group, University of Science and Technology of China would like to mirror FreeBSD. Here: https://github.com/ustclug/mirrorrequest/issues/172 https://github.com/ustclug/mirrorrequest/issues/171 But do Linux User Group, University of Science and Technology of China mirrors FreeBSD ? And what should LUG do for it =EF=BC=9F thanks. On Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 3:55 PM Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net> wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, thanks for offering to help. Currently the > .cn.FreeBSD.org mirror is mostly dead and we do need help. > > Please see my response inline. > > On 3/27/18 11:20, ykla wrote: > > Hi, everyone > > I am really sorry to trouble you again at the first. But I have to > send > > this email to you. > > > > I am a student who from HuBei University Of Education and is a > master > > of the Baidu FreeBSD Paste Bar. I have emailed you to tell you that > > FreeBSD haven't official mirrors in the Chinese mainland. For example, > if I > > want to install "nano", I have to waiting it for 1 hour. > > Sorry to hear that. pkg is using geodns, so it's important to let > clusteradm@ know if it is giving you the optimal results. To check it, > run: > > dig _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org srv > > And: > > dig pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org > > (You can override the mirror by making changes to /etc/pkg/pkg.conf and > replace pkg.FreeBSD.org with e.g. pkg0.twn.freebsd.org or > pkg0.kwc.freebsd.org). > > The mirror documentation is at > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/tiny-mirror and > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/generic-mirror-layout . > > > As we all know, due to this reason, there are fewer people know wh= at > > is the FreeBSD, and fewer people to use it. > > > > We want to mirror FreeBSD that including pkg, > > posts, freebsd-update and freebsd portsnap mirrors. But FreeBSD project > > seems that doesn't support we to mirror that. We don't know how to make > it. > > freebsd-update and portsnap mirrors are managed differently, and you can > contact Colin Percival (cperciva@) for that. Alternatively, if your > mirror have low latency to an existing mirror, it's also possible to > simply reverse-proxy to an existing mirror and cache the data locally. > For relatively low usage portsnap mirror, this would result in much less > data transfers ("normal" portsnap mirror would transport much more data > than a proxy). > > The scripts for mirroring portsnap is available from svn at > base/user/cperciva/portsnap-mirror/ . > > Hope this helps (I'll be AFK from Friday for ~10 days but will try to > respond emails). > > > And I call Linux User Association which belongs to the University of > > Science and Technology of China. They would like to mirror it, and > > mirrors pkg and ports successful by the special way. > > > > =E2=80=8C Here is their website: > > > > http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn > > > > > > github: > > > > https://github.com/ustclug/mirrorrequest/issues/172 > > > > And if you want to help us, you can send an email to > > > > lug@ustc.edu.cn > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > yours, > > ykla > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hubs > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hubs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > >
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