FreeBSD 6.0 coming to mirrors

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Thu Nov 3 12:32:20 PST 2005


Kevin Day wrote:
> 
> On Nov 3, 2005, at 11:33 AM, Scott Long wrote:
> 
>> All,
>>
>> Most of the FreeBSD 6.0 ISO images and ftp trees are on ftp-master  
>> now, with the exception of i386.  That will be moved into place  very 
>> shortly.
>> If at all possible, please try to sync these soon so that we can  
>> announce the release.  Having freebsd.isc.org and  ftp.beastie.tdk.net 
>> are of course the highest priority, but having  all of the secondaries
>> is very important also.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Scott
> 
> 
> This brings up a question for me. I'm 1 hop away from one of Yahoo's  
> routers, and only 4 hops from ftp-master. I can easily pull 15-20mbps  
> from it, more if multiple rsyncs end up running at once.
> 
> Would you prefer us to pull as quickly as possible so that the  mirrors 
> get the data ASAP, or would you rather I rate limited it so  I'm not 
> sucking up so much of ftp-master's bandwidth? What is its  overall 
> limit, 100mbps? 1000mbps?
> 
> - Kevin
> ftp3.us.freebsd.org
> 

I'll talk with Paul Saab and see if it's a problem.  Until then, go for
it!

Scott


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