Ftp server near me

[aerial_gus]

I had this question a couple years back. I did command line ftp logins until
I found something I recognized, usually a school or university. I'm on the
East Coast (US) so I got lucky with MIT, Perdue and UNC. Commercial-sited
servers, your guess is as good as mine.

I guess you could try to brute-force a solution w/ some combination of
nslookup, traceroute etc and a six-pack...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart at owt.com>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Cc: "DerDrache" <derdrache at electricpincushion.com>; "uidzero"
<uidzero at one-arm.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: Ftp server near me


> On Saturday 10 July 2004 01:33 pm, uidzero wrote:
> > DerDrache wrote:
> > > My apologies.  I did not read your original email as closely as I
> > > should have.  fastest_cvsup will only test cvsup servers.
> > >
> > > DerDrache wrote:
> > >> fastest_cvsup is a simple program to use that can be found in the
> > >> ports tree.  I'd recommend it.
> > >>
> > >> /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup
> > >>
> > >> DerDrache
> > >>
> > >> Joshua Lewis wrote:
> > >>> All documentation tells you when running CVSUP or installing FBSD
> > >>> from FTP
> > >>> to use the FTP server closest to you.
> > >>>
> > >>> So how do you determine the best server. I recall reading a post
> > >>> that said
> > >>> run a command that will determine the closest server or fastest
> > >>> server near
> > >>> you. I however lost the page I printed out and can't remember the
> > >>> web address.
> > >>>
> > >>> Any ideas how to find the fastest server near me?
> >
> > Ahh, the same here. I aoologize.
> >
>
> I think I would have given the same answer. It was the only choice since
> the Handbook no longer tells you where each mirror is located. All you
> can do now, is choose an FTP mirror that is in a country close to you.
>
> Kent
>
> -- 
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA
>
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