[WBEL-users] ftp.opensourcemirrors.org

[aly.dharshi@telus.net]

Hi Folks,

	I guess that I would like to see if John is okay with us mirroring
the goodies directly from their servers. We are a big ISP in Canada and I
am sure that we can be an official mirror if that is acceptable with all.

	Cheers,

	Aly.

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Kirby C. Bohling wrote:

kbohli >On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 11:13:09AM -0800, Ben Mohilef wrote:
kbohli >> The site opensourcemirrors.org has shown up in up2date for a long
kbohli >> time. However, it seems to never have been connected. (I tried to
kbohli >> reach it from several addresses to make sure we somehow were
kbohli >> not on some strange blocklist and it was always dead). Has anyone
kbohli >> else been able to raise that site?
kbohli >>
kbohli >> It was supposed to be hosted by hostway in Austin, Texas. Does
kbohli >> anyone know anything about this? When ftp.opensourcemirrors.org
kbohli >> is selected on rotation up2date will hang. If the site is truly dead,
kbohli >> can it be removed from the mirror sites selected by up2date?
kbohli >
kbohli >I'm fairly sure that OpenSourceMirrors.org didn't even have working
kbohli >DNS at one point recently.  There is another Phantom Hosting that
kbohli >was last updated in May 2004 (right after the U2 update).   I
kbohli >haven't seen either of those two mirrors work in 4-6 months.
kbohli >
kbohli >Those are the two least useful mirrors.  Most the rest aren't so bad
kbohli >in my experience (some of them have a day more lag then others, but
kbohli >for the most part, within 48 hours of a package being released, it's
kbohli >on all of the mirrors except for the two listed above).
kbohli >
kbohli >	Kirby
kbohli >
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