[Fwd: INDEX on mirrors]

[Erwin Lansing]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 07:48:48PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> Have y'all seen this? Followups to this post indicated that this is a
> much bigger problem.

ftp-master.eu is behind after many big uploads, both packages and
snapshot isos.  Unfortunately, there's not much else to do but to
increase the speed of light or sit back and relax.  (Un)fortunately,
pointyhat is down for now, so no new packages will be uploaded and this
will give it time to catch up.

-erwin

> 
> Doug
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: INDEX on mirrors
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:00:58 +0100
> From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de>
> To: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
> 
> It seems that ftp.freebsd.org does load balancing and not all
> servers are in sync. I have repeatedly downloaded:
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-7-stable/INDEX
> And there seem to be 2 versions around, one from February 27 and
> one from March 06.
> 
> I have a shell script that connects to the ftp via netcat and
> compares the age of the file to a local copy. If the local
> copy is outdated a fetch is started.
> 
> Nice idea to safe traffic, but useless if you get the same
> outdated file, because servers are not in sync.
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Erwin Lansing                                   http://droso.org
Prediction is very difficult                   erwin at FreeBSD.org
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