FYI - ftp7.freebsd.org and ftpX.us.freebsd.org

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Ken, let me express my thanks for the great job you are doing. This was 
sorely needed.

Ken Smith wrote:
> Just FYI...
> 
> We had several excellent candidates for ftp7.freebsd.org this time
> around.  Those of you who were not chosen please do not be discouraged.
> We wanted another non-USA site this time to begin spreading things
> around a bit.  In the end the decision was made based on ping-times
> from Buffalo, California, and Japan which is certainly not a perfect
> way to handle it but for now it will do.  Thanks again to everyone
> who made the offer.
> 
> As of last night the USA based ftpX.freebsd.org sites got copied so
> you are also ftpX.us.freebsd.org (where, for your site, X will be the
> same).
> 
> For those of you who do carry the branches/ stuff, you should notice
> that it is now going away.  It's not completely gone yet (still some
> stuff in branches/-current) but it should be soon.
> 
> At this point I don't consider the Mirror Site Requirements discussion
> settled but I leave for a 1-week vacation tomorrow so that will be on hold
> for a while.  It's not a huge rush - I just consider it part of that
> first assignment Jun gave me (update the hubs article) so I won't be
> done with my first task until that gets settled.  I need to learn how
> to update the list of FTP mirrors in sysinstall anyway so I will probably
> invest some time in improving it.  If nothing else I'd like to relax the
> "/pub/FreeBSD" thing to the point it is "desired" instead of "required".
> If doing more than just that doesn't seem too difficult maybe we can
> do something with the suggestion of setting up DNS to help locate the
> desired architectures.
> 


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