Mirrors in China

[ykla]

Linux User Group, University of Science and Technology of China would like
to mirror FreeBSD.

Here:

https://github.com/ustclug/mirrorrequest/issues/172


https://github.com/ustclug/mirrorrequest/issues/171

But do Linux User Group, University of Science and Technology of China
mirrors FreeBSD ? And what should LUG do for it ？

thanks.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 3:55 PM Xin Li <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> First of all, thanks for offering to help.  Currently the
> .cn.FreeBSD.org mirror is mostly dead and we do need help.
>
> Please see my response inline.
>
> On 3/27/18 11:20, ykla wrote:
> > Hi, everyone
> >     I am really sorry to trouble you again at the first. But I have to
> send
> > this email to you.
> >
> >     I am a student  who from HuBei University Of Education and  is a
> master
> > of the Baidu FreeBSD Paste Bar. I have emailed you to tell you that
> > FreeBSD haven't official mirrors in the Chinese mainland. For example,
> if I
> > want to install "nano", I have to waiting it for 1 hour.
>
> Sorry to hear that.  pkg is using geodns, so it's important to let
> clusteradm@ know if it is giving you the optimal results.  To check it,
> run:
>
> dig _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org srv
>
> And:
>
> dig pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org
>
> (You can override the mirror by making changes to /etc/pkg/pkg.conf and
> replace pkg.FreeBSD.org with e.g. pkg0.twn.freebsd.org or
> pkg0.kwc.freebsd.org).
>
> The mirror documentation is at
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/tiny-mirror and
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/generic-mirror-layout .
>
> >      As we all know, due to this reason, there are fewer people know what
> > is the FreeBSD, and fewer people to use it.
> >
> >     We want to mirror FreeBSD that including pkg,
> > posts, freebsd-update and freebsd portsnap mirrors. But FreeBSD project
> > seems that doesn't support we to mirror that. We don't know how to make
> it.
>
> freebsd-update and portsnap mirrors are managed differently, and you can
> contact Colin Percival (cperciva@) for that.  Alternatively, if your
> mirror have low latency to an existing mirror, it's also possible to
> simply reverse-proxy to an existing mirror and cache the data locally.
> For relatively low usage portsnap mirror, this would result in much less
> data transfers ("normal" portsnap mirror would transport much more data
> than a proxy).
>
> The scripts for mirroring portsnap is available from svn at
> base/user/cperciva/portsnap-mirror/ .
>
> Hope this helps (I'll be AFK from Friday for ~10 days but will try to
> respond emails).
>
> > And I call Linux User Association which belongs to the University of
> > Science and Technology of China. They would like to mirror it, and
> > mirrors pkg and ports successful by the special way.
>
>
> > ‌    Here is their website:
> >
> > http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn
> >
> >
> >    github:
> >
> > https://github.com/ustclug/mirrorrequest/issues/172
> >
> >     And if you want to help us, you can send an email to
> >
> > lug at ustc.edu.cn
> >
> >    Thanks a lot.
> >
> > yours,
> > ykla
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