WWW Mirrors

[NLISP Internet]

If there's a mirror in the Netherlands needed, give me a mail I can host it.
I already host cvsup5.nl.freebsd.org and I'm willing to do some more for the
community if needed.

Thanks for all your work

Greetings
Vincent Bruijnes
NLISP Internet

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Smith" <kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To: <freebsd-hubs at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 9:32 AM
Subject: WWW Mirrors


>
> It looks like I'll be coordinating the www mirror sites too.  I have
> checked with www@ and they don't seem interested.  The doc@ folks
> seemed pleased when I tried to process the addition for Greece that
> came along recently.  This message is mostly me fishing for more
> background that you folks might have noticed flow through this list or
> have seen elsewhere.  Unless you think something warrants discussion
> if you want to point anything out to me just send personal email
> please.  I don't think many of you will care about this but some of
> you might notice me about to make a mistake I'd regret later. :-)
>
> As far as I can tell the only place that the www mirrors are mentioned
> at all is the pull-down list on the top-level page of the freebsd.org
> Web site itself.  It doesn't seem like it's following any particular
> standard for how things are laid out - some sections map www3 to USA/3
> for example but other sections don't.  The USA listing actually mixes
> in sites not in the USA.  There are hosts listed that are not in
> freebsd.org namespace, etc...
>
> So, I'm going to continue to allow www mirror sites that aren't
> registered in freebsd.org.  I'll condense the listed sites at some
> point, I don't think the tag that's given to them in the pull-down
> list has any relevance to the users at all other than an indication of
> what country it's in (by condense I mean, for example, change the
> label on "Denmark/3" to "Denmark/2" - no point in having a gap).  The
> users will care about the DNS names because if they bookmark a site it
> will be the DNS name that gets recorded so I won't monkey around with
> those and will try to make sure once a DNS name does exist we have
> something that responds to that name.  As we shift over to having
> "us.freebsd.org" instead of the TLD being for the United States I'll
> continue to have sites in the TLD because of the bookmark issue but I
> won't "advertise" them in that pull-down list.  Sites in the list
> tagged as USA/something will be in us.freebsd.org.  For the FTP sites
> we'll be using the TLD as a hint the sites are Primary but I don't
> think there is a need for something like that among the www sites.
> I'll work with the Zone Admins at the point a site seems to go bad.
> I'd sort of prefer the pull-down list only contain unique mappings to
> sites so it stays a reasonable size but we can work that out on a
> case-by-case basis.  The Zone Admins should probably adjust the DNS
> entries to point the bad site at an existing good site because of the
> user bookmarks issue.
>
> And I'll start recording site contact info at the point I add them
> in.  As far as I can tell nobody did that before.
>
> -- 
> Ken Smith
> - From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith at cse.buffalo.edu
>   there, funny things are everywhere.   |
>                       - Theodore Geisel |
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