cvsup.freebsd.org

[Bill Fumerola]

[ this is really not hackers@ material  ]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:24:17PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
> 
> What happend to this host? I cannot ping it more than 10 hours.

although verio is advertising 198.104.0.0/16, they are blackholing it.
 7  xe-0-2-0.r20.snjsca04.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.72)  2.173 ms  4.281 ms  2.317 ms
 8  * * *

 6  verio-level3-oc12.Chicago1.Level3.net (209.0.227.66)  6.628 ms  7.754 ms  6.935 ms
 7  * *

 6  ge-6-1-0.r06.plalca01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.3.53)  15.934 ms  17.592 ms  16.74 ms
 7  * *

that being said:
ns0 06:13:48 /etc/namedb/primary $ grep -c '^cvsup[0-9]' freebsd.org 
18

try a mirror. try a local .de mirror. there is nothing 'special' about
cvsup.freebsd.org relative to the other public cvsup servers.

-- 
- bill fumerola / fumerola at yahoo-inc.com / billf at FreeBSD.org / billf at mu.org

ps. before anyone starts the quarterly "round robin dns" thread, please
    read the extensive archives on the topic. thanks.