Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 11:27:03 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where is FreeBSD on ftp.uk.freebsd.org? Message-ID: <200805251127.04215.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080524230414.GA5679@shepherd> References: <48389A1D.9010201@onetel.com> <20080524230414.GA5679@shepherd>
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On Sunday 25 May 2008, Sahil Tandon wrote: > * Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> [05-24-2008]: > > Also UK is not in the list of countries at > > http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php. > > Several UK mirrors listed here: > > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/mirr= ors-ftp.html Unfortunately most of these don't appear to be functional. I've tried to=20 access /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ on them with very limited success. ftp.uk.freebsd.org =3D> ftp.plig.net Failed - /pub/FreeBSD doesn't exist ftp2.uk.freebsd.org =3D> ftp.mirrorservice.org OK ftp3.uk.freebsd.org =3D> ftp.demon.net Failed - Incomplete mirror ftp> cd pub/FreeBSD 250 CWD command successful. ftp> dir 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||52865|) 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list -r--rw-r-- 1 root archives 6254 Nov 5 2002 README.TXT drwxr-xr-x 2 root archives 4096 Oct 24 2004 TrustedBSD -r--rw-r-- 1 root archives 20645 Feb 5 2004 dir.sizes 226 Transfer complete. ftp4.uk.freebsd.org =3D> sunsite.org.uk Failed - Destination Host Unreachable ftp5.uk.freebsd.org =3D> karma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Failed - no response ftp6.uk.freebsd.org =3D> storm.freebsd.org.uk Failed - /pub/FreeBSD doesn't exist Of the 6 mirrors, ftp2.uk.freebsd.org looks like the only usable one.=20 That's what I've been using for quite a while now with no problems. The situation with UK mirrors for the FreeBSD website is quite messy=20 too. The home page at www.uk.freebsd.org doesn't appear to have been=20 updated for over a year, the production release is shown as 6.2 and the=20 latest security patch is listed as 2007-02-09. The main FreeBSD site <http://www.freebsd.org/>; shows a couple of UK=20 mirrors in it's drop-down list, United Kingdom/1 and United Kingdom/2,=20 which resolve to www1.uk.freebsd.org and www3.uk.freebsd.org=20 respectively. Currently www1 appears to be down but www3 appears to be=20 OK. I appreciate that www.uk.freebsd.org isn't listed as a mirror on the=20 main web site but it's the one many people might intuitively try to use=20 and it's a pity that it will give them such an out of date view of=20 =46reeBSD. =2D-=20 Mike Clarke
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