From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 4 09:29:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FF816A416 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:29:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr (smtp3-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD4F43D46 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:29:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org (unknown [82.233.2.192]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6FCA49551; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:29:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B17115A5; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:29:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 71602-04; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:29:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cream.stl.xbsd.org (cream.xbsd.org [193.120.13.130]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9942611476; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:29:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Florent Thoumie To: Mike Jakubik In-Reply-To: <4522F7C7.7090705@rogers.com> References: <4256BB8CAC97017A8BF293DE@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20061003225950.GA53790@icarus.home.lan> <4522F7C7.7090705@rogers.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-M5hdm6jPrQyRBUBoewu0" Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:29:33 +0100 Message-Id: <1159954173.25828.2.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Incredibly slow mirror site X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:29:49 -0000 --=-M5hdm6jPrQyRBUBoewu0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 19:52 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:48:11PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > =20 > >> I'm building kde3 from ports, and the koffice install attempts to down= load=20 > >> the tar.bz2 file from ftp.scarlet.be. The download is about 2 BYTES p= er=20 > >> second! > >> > >> I stopped the download and fetched the file from somewhere else. > >> > >> Maybe someone should check that site? > >> > >> Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > >> Adjunct Information Security Officer > >> The University of Texas at Dallas > >> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ > >> =20 > > > > I can confirm this. Passive vs. active FTP doesn't matter either. > > Would the owner of this mirror please take ownership? > > > > =20 >=20 > The problem i think is that many ports with multiple mirrors will use=20 > mirrors from 3rd world countries first, and the mirrors with real=20 > bandwidth will always be last on the list. Can anyone explain to me why=20 > that is? Doesn't it make more sense to try the fastest one first? Belgium =3D=3D Third world? Now that's new :-) --=20 Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer --=-M5hdm6jPrQyRBUBoewu0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFI379MxEkbVFH3PQRAttpAJ9CWqIrEkgTvLIXwAS/DhtzlrJIiACdFqEB HErl8EZ2E2kn+D4stKO2PwY= =sEgA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-M5hdm6jPrQyRBUBoewu0--