New AU CVSup Mirror Looking for CVSUP4.US Contact

Peter Losher Peter_Losher at isc.org
Tue Jul 22 02:28:19 UTC 2008


Peter Losher wrote:
> John Marshall wrote:
> 
>> The upstream (non-master) mirror which appears to be the best option for
>> us is CVSUP4.US (the ISC mirror on the USA West Coast), so that is what
>> we have been using. Without having made any prior arrangement for access
>> to that server, our connections are being rejected typically 4 to 6
>> times per day.  These synchronization failures tend to clump together
>> during our evening, resulting in anything up to a 7-hour lapse in
>> syncronization. Here is an example of a 6-hour lapse:
> 
> Yeah, it seems a lot of slots have been taken up by a Turkish resort
> chain (Joy Hotels) where each one of the resort behind their own Turk
> Telecom DSL line/IP is banging cvsup4.us for a constant CVsup update
> every couple of minutes. (seems they should be running their own private
> CVSup mirror or use cvsup.tr.freebsd.org)

If you want a even starker number:

% grep joyhotels /var/log/cvsupd.log | wc -l
     983

Grumbl...

-Peter
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