Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:58:45 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Alex <ak@freenet.co.uk> Cc: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, robmel@nadt.org.uk, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup woes Message-ID: <19991228125845.C7468@florence.pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <3867C05F.60E5AAD1@freenet.co.uk> References: <v04220802b48d2ada2729@[172.16.17.20]> <199912271802.KAA02871@vashon.polstra.com> <19991227184100.H1290@marder-1> <3867C05F.60E5AAD1@freenet.co.uk>
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On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 07:39:11PM +0000, Alex wrote: > > Yeah, it used to be Imperial College London, but now Easynet seems to be > taking over the world... (running FreeBSD mostly BTW). They have a > pretty damn fast link to NY, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was faster > even for some people in the US. > Hiya, not quite true. The cvsup.uk.freebsd.org server has always been run my me at Pavilion. The uk.freebsd.org domain was always running here at Pavilion, and when Easynet purchased us a few years ago they were mostly BSDI and NetBSD. We introduced them to FreeBSD, a model that's been followed since. John Polstra reminded me at FreeBSDCon that we were maybe the second or third cvsup server in the world :) Now in the UK cvsup.uk.freebsd.org is located in Telehouse on the Pavilion backbone (with Easynet routes, and an STM1 to New York), and cvsup2.uk.freebsd.org is running on Brian Somers (of user-ppp fame) machine in my office in Brighton. With respect to the FTP servers, when I inherited the running of the uk.freebsd.org name space we already had three FTP mirrors, at Imperial College (sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk), the Hensa File Archive (Lancaster university) and Demon Internet. Since then we've acquired a further three FTP servers across the country. FTP4 was on the Easynet backbone in Easynet UK HQ, FTP5 is run by the UK User Group, and FTP6 is on Brian's machine. A little while ago I swapped FTP with FTP4 for two reasons, firstly due to the tightening of restrictions on the JANET (Join Academic Network) Imperial College had to reduce the number of concurrent connections to their FTP archive which serious caused UK FreeBSD people problems. Later the Imperial College machine suffered a major hardware failure that took it out of service for a couple of weeks. The new premier server is run by Easynet and so it is very easy for me to poke them if anything goes wrong, which to this day I've not had to do. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how Technical Manager deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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