cvsup*.uk.freebsd.org

[Randy Bush]

> There is only one working cvsup server in the UK.  All the hostnames are
> CNAMEs to sesame.csx.cam.ac.uk.  There is/was one server at cvsup.plig.net
> but its decomissioned and no longer answers.
> 
> Robert Watson looked at the sesame problem earlier (
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hubs/2012-January/002413.html )
> and it appears that the upstream server is/was refusing connections

perhaps when one or more servers are *known* not to be current, they
should downed and/or their dns turned off.  

having non-current servers up is costing our fellow sysadmins a lot of
wasted time.

randy