BitTorrent official access?

[Frank Laszlo]

Barry Bouwsma wrote:

>Long ago, on Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:06:41 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
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>>>On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:12:33PM +0100, Barry Bouwsma wrote:
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>>>>Are there plans to officially make FreeBSD releases available via
>>>>BitTorrent, comparable to the way NetBSD lists it as an access method?
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>>Given that the torrent links were included in the 5.3 release
>>announcements, that's seems pretty official to me :-)
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>Heh, serves me right for not paying attention to any of the announcements.
>I stand humiliated.  On the other hand, people like me who ignore any
>announcements and go straight to the Where To Get page know absolutely
>nothing.  I guess I'm saying that once it does become official and all
>that, there should be a permanent mention on the website, if it's not
>planned already.
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>Anyhows, two questions:
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>First, is the torrents.freebsd.org machine down (for about a week or so),
>or am I blocked from reaching it 'cuz I kept having kernel panics and
>could not be a reliable seed site?
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>Second,
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>While the 4.11 demand was not terribly overwhelming, and I'm actually
>a bit surprised how there's been a constant demand for 5.3 after all
>this time, might it be possible to announce in this list (or wherever
>appropriate) when the .torrent files are available, ahead of the
>release announcement, for those of us who want to act as seeds and
>have the ISO images from a nearby mirror already, in order to be all
>up-to-date and ready for the announcement, so that there are more
>available seed sites when the announcement does come?
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>And given the constant BitTorrent demand for 5.3 (i386) even without
>mention apart from the announcement long ago, I wonder if mention on
>the Where To Find page would result in additional access via Torrent...
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>A cumulative .torrent listing on the official site, I'd say -- with my
>underpowered hardware I'm no match for an official mirror site, but
>with storage so cheap these days, a fanatic can easily devote some gigs
>to releases from long ago with occasional demand, but no need for the
>infrastructure of a mirror, contributing that way.  Only bandwidth slows
>me down.
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>thanks
>barry bouwsma
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Any resolution to this yet? I would like to seed the downloads as well, 
I have plenty of bandwidth to abuse. Still cant access the tracker.


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