[aklug] Re: unofficial mirror

Royce Williams wrote:
> Shane R. Spencer wrote, on 4/23/2009 8:26 AM:
>> Leif Sawyer wrote:
>>> I'll try to get some local mirrors going.=20
>
>> Can you set up a torrent tracker/seeder somewhere. We'd need somebody
>> on an ACS pipe to do the same.
>
> No torrent yet, not very polished, this is not an official product or
> anything, best effort, not supported by $EMPLOYER, low priority, judges'
> decisions are final, close cover before striking, do not stare directly
> into the sun, etc.:
>
> http://mirrors.acsalaska.net/
>
>
> As the blurb on the front page says:
>
> "Most mirrors here are partial. Priority is given to i386 and amd64
> platforms, ISOs, English, and the latest stable releases. There are
> currently only a few packages and ports available here, with more planned."
>
> There's a decided FreeBSD bias :-), but there's also a little bit of
> Debian, Fedora, Knoppix, and OpenSolaris.
>
> There's also a crude nightly IOS index of sorts generated:
>
> http://mirrors.acsalaska.net/pub/ISO-INDEX.html
>
> Only HTTP and rsync are up right now; no torrent participation or FTP,
> but you can at least grab the ISOs:
>
> http://mirrors.acsalaska.net/pub/Linux/ubuntu/CDs/releases/9.04/
>
> ... and some limited rsync access:
>
> $ rsync rsync://mirrors.acsalaska.net/
>
> [snip]
>
> freebsd FreeBSD releases and ISOs
> freebsd-archive Selected contents from ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/
> freebsd-ports FreeBSD ports tree, updated every ~24 hours
> freebsd-src_6_3 FreeBSD RELENG_6_3 source tree, tracking -SECURITY
> linux Linux releases and ISOs
>
>
> It hasn't been tweaked to take any load yet; guess we'll find out how it
> does! :-)
>
> Royce
>
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you rule ..

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