Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 10:12:57 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FYI - ftp7.freebsd.org and ftpX.us.freebsd.org Message-ID: <3F2A6759.8040109@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20030801124435.GB17790@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20030801124435.GB17790@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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Ken, let me express my thanks for the great job you are doing. This was
sorely needed.
Ken Smith wrote:
> Just FYI...
>
> We had several excellent candidates for ftp7.freebsd.org this time
> around. Those of you who were not chosen please do not be discouraged.
> We wanted another non-USA site this time to begin spreading things
> around a bit. In the end the decision was made based on ping-times
> from Buffalo, California, and Japan which is certainly not a perfect
> way to handle it but for now it will do. Thanks again to everyone
> who made the offer.
>
> As of last night the USA based ftpX.freebsd.org sites got copied so
> you are also ftpX.us.freebsd.org (where, for your site, X will be the
> same).
>
> For those of you who do carry the branches/ stuff, you should notice
> that it is now going away. It's not completely gone yet (still some
> stuff in branches/-current) but it should be soon.
>
> At this point I don't consider the Mirror Site Requirements discussion
> settled but I leave for a 1-week vacation tomorrow so that will be on hold
> for a while. It's not a huge rush - I just consider it part of that
> first assignment Jun gave me (update the hubs article) so I won't be
> done with my first task until that gets settled. I need to learn how
> to update the list of FTP mirrors in sysinstall anyway so I will probably
> invest some time in improving it. If nothing else I'd like to relax the
> "/pub/FreeBSD" thing to the point it is "desired" instead of "required".
> If doing more than just that doesn't seem too difficult maybe we can
> do something with the suggestion of setting up DNS to help locate the
> desired architectures.
>
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and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there
is no such thing as progress.
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