Future of DNS, DNSSEC, country code delegations, etc.

[Dr Josef Karthauser]

On 25 Mar 2014, at 12:26, Tim Bishop <tim at bishnet.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 05:51:16PM +0000, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
>> I'm in favour of passing uk.freeBSD.org back to central administration
>> - I think that we boil down to just a single FTP mirror these days
>> anyway; cvsup support has already been dropped in the uk.
> 
> Two mirrors;
> 
> ftp.uk.freebsd.org is an alias for ftp3.uk.freebsd.org.
> ftp3.uk.freebsd.org is an alias for mirror.exonetric.net.
> mirror.exonetric.net has address 178.250.72.50
> mirror.exonetric.net has IPv6 address 2a02:1658:0:8020::4
> 
> ftp2.uk.freebsd.org is an alias for ftp.mirrorservice.org.
> ftp.mirrorservice.org has address 212.219.56.184
> 
> Just wanted to point that out as the (new) admin of mirrorservice.org :-)
> 
> Tim.

Ah! Hello! :) Mirrorservice have been a support for years and years and years - I erroneously supposed that we'd lost primary support. Glad to be corrected!

Actually, what Peter's proposing is pulling the delegation back, not dropping local mirrors! :) You've still got a job, it's only me that's sacked under the new scheme! :)

Joe