docs/173598: torrents.freebsd.org seems to be down

[Glen Barber]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:57:33PM -0500, kpneal at pobox.com wrote:
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > State-Changed-By: gjb
> > State-Changed-When: Wed Dec 5 20:32:01 UTC 2012
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > Removed torrents.FreeBSD.org in r40278.
> 
> That's a shame. 
> 
> It was used by how many hundreds or thousands of people. It is popular
> enough that multiple people reported the outage despite there not being
> an obvious place to do it. People are _still_ using BT to download FreeBSD
> this very minute:
> 
> ID     Done       Have  ETA           Up    Down  Ratio  Status       Name
>   96   100%    1.18 GB  Done         9.0     0.0   3.57  Seeding      FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc-all
>  197   100%    4.11 GB  Done         4.0     0.0   5.07  Seeding      8.1-RELEASE-i386-all
>  231   100%    4.23 GB  Done        24.0     0.0   12.0  Seeding      FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-all
>  304   100%    2.24 GB  Done        16.0     0.0   45.7  Seeding      FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1
> 
> It makes it easier for people with flakey net connections to still do
> reliable downloads of FreeBSD. Some of these people are here in the US,
> but many are all around the world. Heck, the freebsd.org client went down
> I forget how many months ago but one or two people tended to keep 200+ old
> release torrents on the air.
> 
> It allows people to donate bandwidth to the project while still allowing
> FreeBSD to vouch for the authenticity of the downloaded files. And having
> a tracker inside freebsd.org means it is easier to defend against charges
> of piracy since there were never any files on that tracker that shouldn't
> have been there.
> 
> Personally, I hate to see it go.

It is not something I can control, unfortunately.

Personally, I would not download sources that are not directly provided
by the Project however.

I removed the link from the website.  I did not take down the service.

Glen

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