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Date:      Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:05:06 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Valentino Vaschetto <logo@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        hubs@freebsd.org, developers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysinstall listed mirrors
Message-ID:  <20010904080506.C30764@curie.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010904054335.Q11811-200000@Blitzkrieg.Blackened.com>; from logo@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:55:25AM -0700
References:  <20010904054335.Q11811-200000@Blitzkrieg.Blackened.com>

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On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:55:25AM -0700, Valentino Vaschetto (logo@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> I've sent a patch to Murray about listing ftp mirrors 7, 8, 9 and 10 in
> menus.c of sysinstall. I don't know if there was ever a decision made, but
> I seem to remember that all ftp*.freebsd.org servers would be 'Tier 1'
> servers and would carry all of the ftp archives which would make them
> suitable to be listed in sysinstall.

Be careful about just blindly adding them:

> +      { " USA #9",      "ftp9.freebsd.org", NULL, dmenuSetVariable, NULL,
> +        VAR_FTP_PATH "=ftp://ftp9.freebsd.org" },

This server is on the Purdue Data Network (via CERIAS at Purdue
University), so I am familiar with it.  However, it doesn't
follow standard /pub/FreeBSD naming.  If you connect to it,
you'll notice the prefix is /pub/os/FreeBSD instead...

-- 
wca

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