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 archives20645 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and it's a pity that it will give them such an out of date view of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
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