Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:22:02 -0400 (EDT) From: OCtane <zhaoc@escape.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Off topic question regarding Digital River, ftp.cdrom.com, ftp.freebsd.org, etc. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0008171700370.12681-100000@escape.com>
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Hi, sorry for this somewhat off topic question, but I felt that the people "In the know" would probably be here. I was doing some traceroutes to determine the best ftp mirror to retrieve my favorite OS from, and noticed some changes in the way the servers are set up. I don't remember reading any news reports/press releases regarding this, so I'd appreciate it if someone could point me to some info or satisfy my curiosity. As I recall, ftp.freebsd.org was always the same machine as ftp.cdrom.com? Has freebsd's main repository been spun off from cdrom.com? It seems that ftp.freebsd.org (now apparently freesoftware.com) is hosted by lightning.net, while ftp.cdrom.com stays at what has become Applied Theory. Does this have anything to do with BSDi buying out Walnut Creek? And what is Digital River? Is this a sub division of BSDi? The ftp login banner at ftp.cdrom.com has a fairly terse warning against linking to files within the archive. That really surprised me, since the way they phrased it reminded me of that whole can-of-worms regarding the deep linking of web pages... (And there are strong opinions regarding that.) So if ftp.freebsd.org is now a different server, are it's specs available? I was just curious since I noticed that it too has a max user limit of 5000, just like cdrom.com. Oh and there seems to be a routing loop to www.freebsd.org. Keeps looping between 165.113.118.1 and 165.113.118.2. Hope that comes up soon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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