Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:09:35 -0600 From: CHris Rich <freebsdnews@gmail.com> To: Bob Johnson <bob88@eng.ufl.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 RC2 disk 1 ISO torrent available Message-ID: <8292450b041105090968a6dbc8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <418BB260.2010007@eng.ufl.edu> References: <418AB64D.4010009@eng.ufl.edu> <20041104233225.GA89577@xor.obsecurity.org> <418BB260.2010007@eng.ufl.edu>
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Once I get it downloaded I will try to seed it for as long as I can On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:03:28 -0500, Bob Johnson <bob88@eng.ufl.edu> wrote: > > > > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: > > > >>This is more of an announcement than a question, but: > >> > >>In the past, I've noticed questions from people looking for ISO image > >>file torrents for FreeBSD. To see if there really is a demand for this, > >>I've set one up (only for FreeBSD 5.3RC2 i386 disk 1). You can download > >>the torrent file from http://www.eng.ufl.edu/bobj/FreeBSD-5_3_RC2.torrent > >> > >>I'm using bnbt for the tracker and seeding it with ctorrent. For some > >>reason it seems reluctant to seed to other copies of ctorrent, but works > >>fine with other clients (e.g. qtorrent). When possible, I'll keep > >>another seed up with a different client to try to make sure a usable > >>seed is always up. > >> > >>I'll also try to upload a copy to http://www.suprnova.org to get it more > >>exposure. > > > > > > BTW, we're going to have 'official' torrents for the release this > > time. Thanks for doing this for rc2 though. > > > > Kris > > OK, I should be able to use my seed system to provide a long-term seed > to help with availability. > > BTW, I forgot to open the firewall to allow public access to the > tracker, so anyone who tried to get this torrent last night would have > been unable to. It's fixed now. > > > > - Bob > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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