Re: new mirror: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
Dear all, On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 02:10:17AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: If you could let me know which site you sync from and how frequently, I'll be happy to add you to the list on the website. Thank you for the information regarding what to mirror and what not. Our mirror now excludes the releases before 4.5 (so 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 are mirrored). Furthermore, the cvs/ and distfiles/ directories are not mirrored. We do, however, mirror snapshots/. Feel free to add our mirror to your list (and to the users: feel free to use it!). http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd/ ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd/ rsync://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd/ http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/pub/OpenBSD/ ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/pub/OpenBSD/ Contact information: f...@halifax.rwth-aachen.de rsync source: ftp.eu.openbsd.org update interval: 6 hours connection speed: 2 GBit/sec (will be extended to 10 GBit/sec soon) hosting: RWTH Aachen University, Germany Best regards, -- Carsten Otto o...@informatik.rwth-aachen.de LuFG Informatik 2 http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/ RWTH Aachenphone: +49 241 80-21211 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
Re: new mirror: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Carsten Otto o...@informatik.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Dear OpenBSD team, we offer a new mirror for your project, hosted at RWTH Aachen University in Germany: http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd/ ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd/ rsync://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd/ Of course, we also offer OpenBSD at these addresses, as requested: http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/pub/OpenBSD/ ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/pub/OpenBSD/ The mirror is offering everything we could find and we consider to also provide access to your distfiles in the near future. We currently offer 2 GBit/sec and will this extend to 10 GBit/sec soon. I still do not have all the data the project offers and do not know where to sync from. Sadly, the mirrors on http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html#rsync do not offer the same data set (and all of them are quite slow). Could you give me access to a - complete - fast - primary? mirror? If you have ACLs, please add 137.226.34.42. You only need to mirror two releases and snapshots (as stated on ftp.html) to become an official mirror.. having all releases is a bonus, and very few mirrors have them (iirc, only ftp.su.se). Besides, you'll need to synch from a second level mirror (ftp.eu aka ftp.su.se, from which most european mirrors fetch), primary only allows fetching to trusted mirrors ran by developers. Another second level mirror should pop up soon in .ch. Landry
Re: new mirror: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:51:52 +0200 Landry Breuil landry.bre...@gmail.com wrote: You only need to mirror two releases and snapshots (as stated on ftp.html) to become an official mirror.. having all releases is a bonus, and very few mirrors have them (iirc, only ftp.su.se). Besides, you'll need to synch from a second level mirror (ftp.eu aka ftp.su.se, from which most european mirrors fetch), primary only allows fetching to trusted mirrors ran by developers. Another second level mirror should pop up soon in .ch. Landry Looks, like you are wrong... Depending on the disk space available, mirrors may provide more contents, such as snapshots, older releases, current source tree, etc. May = not mandatory. Jiri
Re: new mirror: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
On 05/27/2010 10:51 AM, Landry Breuil wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Carsten Otto o...@informatik.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Dear OpenBSD team, we offer a new mirror for your project, hosted at RWTH Aachen University in Germany: http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd/ ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd/ rsync://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd/ Of course, we also offer OpenBSD at these addresses, as requested: http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/pub/OpenBSD/ ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/pub/OpenBSD/ The mirror is offering everything we could find and we consider to also provide access to your distfiles in the near future. We currently offer 2 GBit/sec and will this extend to 10 GBit/sec soon. I still do not have all the data the project offers and do not know where to sync from. Sadly, the mirrors on http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html#rsync do not offer the same data set (and all of them are quite slow). Could you give me access to a - complete - fast - primary? mirror? If you have ACLs, please add 137.226.34.42. You only need to mirror two releases and snapshots (as stated on ftp.html) to become an official mirror.. having all releases is a bonus, and very few mirrors have them (iirc, only ftp.su.se). Not at all. Snapshots is a bonus also[1]: The current policy requires mirrors listed on this page to provide at least the last two releases in binary form (currently 4.6 and 4.7), as well as the OpenSSH/, OpenNTPD/, OpenBGPD/, patches/ and tools/ directories. Note that in the above, release means all files under the specific directory (e.g. 4.7/). This includes all architecture subdirectories and the complete packages subdirectory, with packages for all application architectures. Depending on the disk space available, mirrors may provide more contents, such as snapshots, older releases, current source tree, etc. Moreover, www@ is the correct place to discuss that. [1] I support also the snapshots in my official mirror (ftp://mirror.cdmon.com/pub/OpenBSD/) and I assure to you that snapshots means a lot of traffic every fay. Not all people can (or want) to deal with it. -- I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.
Re: new mirror: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
Dear all, On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:20:35AM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Moreover, www@ is the correct place to discuss that. I did write to www@ initially and got no response. Furthermore, someone in some IRC channel told me _this_ list is the appropriate place for this matter. Without proper information on the mirror site it is not that obvious how to talk about mirror stuff. It seems there is a lot of discussion about problems that seem not to appear with other projects. I do not want to take part in these discussions. Therefore I offer the following solution (which is a solution from my point of view, yours may differ): - I offer as much storage as you want (in reasonable limits), the current size of about 800 GByte is fine with me. - Clarify what data should be mirror by _my_ mirror (your choice!). - If possible, focus on data that is useful. We offer the mirror to help people download data they need, not as an archive solution for data which is not needed by the users. - Tell me where I can get this data using rsync (preferably fast). I will await your answers in this matter. Until then the content at http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd/ (and all the other addresses) remains as it is right now. Best regards, -- Carsten Otto o...@informatik.rwth-aachen.de LuFG Informatik 2 http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/ RWTH Aachenphone: +49 241 80-21211 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
Re: new mirror: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
Regardless of what list is appropriate...thank you for mirroring!
Re: new mirror: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Carsten Otto o...@informatik.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Dear all, On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:20:35AM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Moreover, www@ is the correct place to discuss that. I did write to www@ initially and got no response. Furthermore, someone in some IRC channel told me _this_ list is the appropriate place for this matter. Without proper information on the mirror site it is not that obvious how to talk about mirror stuff. It seems there is a lot of discussion about problems that seem not to appear with other projects. I do not want to take part in these discussions. Therefore I offer the following solution (which is a solution from my point of view, yours may differ): - I offer as much storage as you want (in reasonable limits), the current size of about 800 GByte is fine with me. - Clarify what data should be mirror by _my_ mirror (your choice!). - If possible, focus on data that is useful. We offer the mirror to help people download data they need, not as an archive solution for data which is not needed by the users. - Tell me where I can get this data using rsync (preferably fast). You are offering plenty of space for the required OpenBSD mirror stuff (see the ftp page for details). Given that you'v got plenty of space and you want to focus on data that is useful, I suggest mirroring snapshots as well. I host a third tier mirror and much of my traffic is dovoted to folks updating snaps. As others have said, third tier mirrors sync to second tier mirrors and, given that you're in Europe, the following are the second tier mirrors there. Second Level Mirror (Vienna, Austria)ftp://anga.funkfeuer.at/pub/OpenBSD/ Second Level Mirror (Vienna, Austria)ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/OpenBSD/ Second Level Mirror (Stockholm, Sweden) ftp://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/ I will await your answers in this matter. Until then the content at http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd/ (and all the other addresses) remains as it is right now. Best regards, -- Carsten Otto o...@informatik.rwth-aachen.de LuFG Informatik 2 http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/ RWTH Aachenphone: +49 241 80-21211 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
Re: new mirror: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 01:28:45PM +0200, Carsten Otto wrote:
It seems there is a lot of discussion about problems that seem not to
appear with other projects. I do not want to take part in these
discussions. Therefore I offer the following solution (which is a
solution from my point of view, yours may differ):
It's a fine solution. And thanks for mirroring!
- I offer as much storage as you want (in reasonable limits), the
current size of about 800 GByte is fine with me.
That is more than necessary.
- Clarify what data should be mirror by _my_ mirror (your choice!).
- If possible, focus on data that is useful. We offer the mirror to
help people download data they need, not as an archive solution for
data which is not needed by the users.
Don't bother mirroring the following:
/pub/OpenBSD/[23].* (old stuff)
/pub/OpenBSD/4.[01234] (more old stuff)
/pub/OpenBSD/cvs(people will get src.tar.gz/use AnonCVS)
/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles (ports only look at ftp.{usa.,}openbsd.org [1])
All other data is either pretty useful or very small. Feel free to drop
/pub/OpenBSD/4.5 as well - it's not supported anymore, and people really
shouldn't be using it.
OpenBSD is released on a twice-yearly cycle, and only the last two
releases are supported. So you could drop /pub/OpenBSD/4.6 in about six
months, and so on.
- Tell me where I can get this data using rsync (preferably fast).
Any of the second-level mirrors. I'd pick the fastest of
rsync://anga.funkfeuer.at/OpenBSD and
rsync://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/OpenBSD.
Joachim
[1] If you're interested: distfiles/ contains copies of the tarballs
etc. used to build all third-party software which can be used on
OpenBSD. This is extremely useful if the site hosting this software goes
down or the maintainers decide to free up some space.
However, the scripts actually building this software only look at
ftp.openbsd.org and ftp.usa.openbsd.org for the distfiles/ folder. Thus,
mirroring it is not very useful.
new mirror: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
Dear OpenBSD team, we offer a new mirror for your project, hosted at RWTH Aachen University in Germany: http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd/ ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd/ rsync://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd/ Of course, we also offer OpenBSD at these addresses, as requested: http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/pub/OpenBSD/ ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/pub/OpenBSD/ The mirror is offering everything we could find and we consider to also provide access to your distfiles in the near future. We currently offer 2 GBit/sec and will this extend to 10 GBit/sec soon. I still do not have all the data the project offers and do not know where to sync from. Sadly, the mirrors on http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html#rsync do not offer the same data set (and all of them are quite slow). Could you give me access to a - complete - fast - primary? mirror? If you have ACLs, please add 137.226.34.42. More information can be found at http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de Best regards, -- Carsten Otto o...@informatik.rwth-aachen.de LuFG Informatik 2 http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/ RWTH Aachenphone: +49 241 80-21211 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
