> On Oct 19, 2020, at 10:29 AM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2020-10-19, Rachel Roch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> One of the CDNs would seem the obvious answer to your problem. Or have you
>> already tried them ?
>
> They fetch files from origin sources on the fly, mostly from Canada
> (for fastly/cloudflare) or USA (VDMS). Frequently fetched files can get
> cached for a bit but if you're somewhere far from the origin they are
> still not great. Usually better than connected directly to a far-away
> site (they do keepalives so there are fewer delays, and the network
> path is usually not too bad) but not as good as a real mirror.
>
> Worth a try but don't expect magic (and there can be caching problems
> with snapshots).
>
>> Addresses are :
>> Fastly (CDN)
>> https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/
>> Cloudflare (CDN)
>> https://cloudflare.cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/
>> Verizon Digital Media Services (CDN)
>> https://mirror.vdms.com/pub/OpenBSD/
>>
>>
>> 19 Oct 2020, 14:13 by [email protected]:
>>
>>> Hello y'all,
>>> Thank you for 6.8 and a painless way to upgrade.
>>> Just out of curiosity and as a sidenote: downloading from Brazil was
>>> always faster for me than from Canada or Europe.
>>> Is there any information available about what happened to the South
>>> American mirrors of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay? They are still there
>>> with 6.6 and 6.7 but no 6.8 and accordingly already do not show up in
>>> the mirror list.
>>> Do those mirrors not comply anymore with the requirements for mirrors or
>>> will they come up later with 6.8 or is it due to the situation of the
>>> pandemic and the closure of the s.am. universities?
>>> Does anyone know?
>>> Cheers
>>> Eike
>>> --
>>> Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE
>>> 01726 Asuncion / Paraguay
>>>
>>
>>
Hey Eike,
https://mirror.planetunix.net/pub/OpenBSD has a local endpoint in São Paulo,
Brazil if that is helpful. Everything except packages are stored on the
endpoint. If you need greater speed from the node, I can upgrade it for a
short period of time.
Cheers,
Brian
