From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 6 23:52:37 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC4501065674 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 23:52:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from april.london.02.net (april.london.02.net [87.194.255.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F4C28FC22 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 23:52:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muji2.config (87.194.237.233) by april.london.02.net (8.5.140) id 4F0E3BDD00794B2F; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 23:52:35 +0000 Message-ID: <4F3067C3.9010502@onetel.com> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:52:35 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100924 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Blackman References: <4F304B64.6040308@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: where is plig.net X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:52:37 -0000 On 06/02/2012 22:33, Mark Blackman wrote: > > On 6 Feb 2012, at 21:51, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > >> About the first thing I ever learned about FreeBSD was the uk >> mirror ftp.plig.net and cvsup.plig.net which I think used to be >> ftp2.uk.freebsd.org. Since then I have always used them as a file >> source for broadband speed tests. They seem to have disappeared >> very recently. Does anyone know what happened to them, have they >> stopped being a mirror? > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hubs/2012-January/002442.html Ah thanks for the info. That makes me sad, they've been like a constant companion all those years. They used to call themselves Internet Sunshine :) Chris