On Sunday 25 May 2008, Sahil Tandon wrote: > * Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-24-2008]: > > Also UK is not in the list of countries at > > http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php. > > Several UK mirrors listed here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html
Unfortunately most of these don't appear to be functional. I've tried to access /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ on them with very limited success. ftp.uk.freebsd.org => ftp.plig.net Failed - /pub/FreeBSD doesn't exist ftp2.uk.freebsd.org => ftp.mirrorservice.org OK ftp3.uk.freebsd.org => ftp.demon.net Failed - Incomplete mirror ftp> cd pub/FreeBSD 250 CWD command successful. ftp> dir 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||52865|) 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list -r--rw-r-- 1 root archives 6254 Nov 5 2002 README.TXT drwxr-xr-x 2 root archives 4096 Oct 24 2004 TrustedBSD -r--rw-r-- 1 root archives 20645 Feb 5 2004 dir.sizes 226 Transfer complete. ftp4.uk.freebsd.org => sunsite.org.uk Failed - Destination Host Unreachable ftp5.uk.freebsd.org => karma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Failed - no response ftp6.uk.freebsd.org => storm.freebsd.org.uk Failed - /pub/FreeBSD doesn't exist Of the 6 mirrors, ftp2.uk.freebsd.org looks like the only usable one. That's what I've been using for quite a while now with no problems. The situation with UK mirrors for the FreeBSD website is quite messy too. The home page at www.uk.freebsd.org doesn't appear to have been updated for over a year, the production release is shown as 6.2 and the latest security patch is listed as 2007-02-09. The main FreeBSD site <http://www.freebsd.org/> shows a couple of UK mirrors in it's drop-down list, United Kingdom/1 and United Kingdom/2, which resolve to www1.uk.freebsd.org and www3.uk.freebsd.org respectively. Currently www1 appears to be down but www3 appears to be OK. I appreciate that www.uk.freebsd.org isn't listed as a mirror on the main web site but it's the one many people might intuitively try to use and it's a pity that it will give them such an out of date view of FreeBSD. -- Mike Clarke _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
