7.0-BETA1 Available, 6.3-BETA1 coming soon...

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:59:08PM +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> 
> On 23/10/2007, at 12:21 PM, Ken Smith wrote:
> 
>> We have entered the final phases of the FreeBSD-7.0 Release cycle which
>> also means the beginning of the FreeBSD-6.3 Release cycle.
> 
> 
> Naturally this is putting considerable load on the main cvsup server at the 
> moment and it isn't easy to get access to cvsup.freebsd.org. However some 
> weeks ago I reported a problem where the Australian mirror was returning 
> incorrect files, so I don't really trust the mirroring system at the 
> moment.
> 
> Is there some safety in using the primary mirrors cvsup[0-9]+.freebsd.org? 
> Which ones can be 100% relied upon to be up to date? Is there some way of 
> verifying that a particular server is up to date and reliable?
> 
> Is there a more appropriate infrastructure mailing list to raise this issue 
> on?
> 
The official list of mirror sites has the contact emails:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer