(ftp|cvsup)*.ch.freebsd.org mirrors

[Fabian Wenk]

Hello

I am the operator of the ch.freebsd.org DNS zone.

In May 2013 I did realize that there is an ongoing outage of the 
server which runs the last (ftp|cvsup)*.ch.freebsd.org mirror 
left in Switzerland. I did notify / ask the server operator 
(SolNet). In response I got the information, that they have a 
hardware failure and it should be back online soon. As one day 
later the server was still down, I changed the CNAMEs to 
ftp2.de.freebsd.org and cvsup.de.freebsd.org. I did notify SolNet 
and asked to be informed when their mirror is back online and 
up-to-date, so I can change DNS back from this temporary solution.

Then I had forgotten about this until last week. I did check and 
their ftp server was running, but the FreeBSD mirror is out of 
sync (e.g. 9.2-RELEASE is missing) and cvsupd is not running.

Today I asked SolNet about the status. In response I learned, 
that they not only had a hardware failure (RAID controller), but 
also had a failure with ZFS on this system and the debugging with 
Pavel took longer. When they had the system up and running again, 
access to the ftp/cvsup master (and/or ftp-master.eu) had been 
denied. They have been told, that after 3 weeks offline they are 
out as a mirror and the FreeBSD Project will run their own CDN 
(this is known to me, as it also had been mention here on other 
occasions).

So how should I as operator of the ch.freebsd.org DNS zone 
proceed? I would like to change back from this temporary CNAMEs 
to a permanent solution and also to servers in Switzerland.

What is the status of the planned FreeBSD CDN? Will there be a 
server for ftp/cvsup in Switzerland? How about the time frame?

Or is it possible to re-enable access to ftp and cvsup master 
from 212.101.4.244 (ftp.freebsd.solnet.ch + 
cvsup.freebsd.solnet.ch) again?


bye
Fabian