svn commit: r46662 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors

Brad Davis brd at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 7 13:53:57 UTC 2015


Author: brd
Date: Thu May  7 13:53:56 2015
New Revision: 46662
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46662

Log:
  Since we are not accepting new mirrors, remove mention of doing so. Also improve note that ftp.f.o is made up of multiple mirrors and run by the project itself.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml	Thu May  7 12:50:43 2015	(r46661)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml	Thu May  7 13:53:56 2015	(r46662)
@@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ This site doesn't have any products newe
       <acronym>FTP</acronym> from a worldwide set of mirror sites.
       The site <uri
 	xlink:href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</uri>
-      is well connected and allows a large number of connections to
-      it, but you are probably better off finding a
-      <quote>closer</quote> mirror site (especially if you decide to
-      set up some sort of mirror site).</para>
+      is available via <acronym>HTTP</acronym> and
+      <acronym>FTP</acronym>.  It is made up of many machines operated
+      by the project cluster administrators and behind GeoDNS to direct
+      users to the closest available mirror.</para>
 
     <para>Additionally, &os; is available via anonymous
       <acronym>FTP</acronym> from the following mirror sites.  If you


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