[Bug 262819] torrents.freebsd.org long gone, but still documented in some translations of the FreeBSD Handbook

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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 07:47:23 UTC 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262819

            Bug ID: 262819
           Summary: torrents.freebsd.org long gone, but still documented
                    in some translations of the FreeBSD Handbook
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
               URL: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/search?o=desc&q
                    =torrents.freebsd.org&s=indexed&type=code
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: doc@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: grahamperrin@gmail.com

Whilst drafting a response to
<https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/toc583/-/>

> Can FreeBSD iso downloads be any faster than 100KB/sec max?

<https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=FreeBSD+download+bittorrent&cat=web&pl=ext-ff&language=english>
found: 

<http://www.far-far-away.com/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-bittorrent.html>

> A.3 BitTorrent
> 
> The ISO images for the basic release CDs are available via BitTorrent. 
> A collection of torrent files to download the images is available at 
> http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080

<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/commit/66353d5757ac279271cda5ba674f4c35e63e6343>
(2012-12-05) for bug 173598 was: 

> Remove torrents.FreeBSD.org; it likely will not be back. 

Now
===

<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/search?o=desc&q=torrents.freebsd.org&s=indexed&type=code>
finds a few remaining mentions, so, for example: 

* <https://docs.freebsd.org/hu/books/handbook/mirrors/#_bittorrent>
* <https://docs.freebsd.org/hu/books/handbook/book/#_bittorrent>

* <https://docs.freebsd.org/mn/books/handbook/mirrors/#mirrors-bittorrent>
* bug 262818 prevents discovery of the corresponding anchor in the 
  long HTML (non-split) mn version

* <https://docs.freebsd.org/nl/books/handbook/mirrors/#mirrors-bittorrent>
* <https://docs.freebsd.org/nl/books/handbook/book/#mirrors-bittorrent>

* <https://docs.freebsd.org/zh-cn/books/handbook/mirrors/#mirrors-bittorrent>
* <https://docs.freebsd.org/zh-cn/books/handbook/book/#mirrors-bittorrent>

Side note: inconsistent anchoring.

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