What about a mirror site that is only locally accessible?

[Dan Langille]

Hi folks,

nz.freebsd.org is planning on moving to a location that is accessible 
only locally.  That is, unless you're in NZ, you won't be able to get 
to the NZ mirrors at all. This change aims to reduce the cost 
incurred by the host providers.  The downside is: anyone outside NZ 
will be unable to verify that the services are still running.

Any feelings on this?

To add more complexity, we're also considering moving the mirrors to 
a peering network so that unless your NZ ISP is peering with WIX 
(Wellington Internet Exchange), you won't be able to get to the 
mirrors.  The reason: lowered cost.

Basically, if we don't do this, we lose our free hosting.  So it's 
pretty much a given that this is going to happen.  I'm just putting 
it out here so that it's all out in the open.
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Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
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