where is FreeBSD on ftp.uk.freebsd.org?

[Chris Whitehouse]

Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Sunday 25 May 2008, Sahil Tandon wrote:
> 
>> * Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> [05-24-2008]:
>>> Also UK is not in the list of countries at
>>> http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php.
>> Several UK mirrors listed here:
>>
>>         http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html
> 
> Unfortunately most of these don't appear to be functional. I've tried to 
> access /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ on them with very limited success.
> 
> ftp.uk.freebsd.org  => ftp.plig.net
>    Failed - /pub/FreeBSD doesn't exist

So does anyone know if plig is coming back? Or out of curiosity why it 
is not? (It's been 'my' server ever since I started using FreeBSD).

Chris


> ftp2.uk.freebsd.org => ftp.mirrorservice.org
>    OK
> ftp3.uk.freebsd.org => ftp.demon.net
>    Failed - Incomplete mirror
>    ftp> cd pub/FreeBSD
>    250 CWD command successful.
>    ftp> dir
>    229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||52865|)
>    150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
>    -r--rw-r--   1 root     archives     6254 Nov  5  2002 README.TXT
>    drwxr-xr-x   2 root     archives     4096 Oct 24  2004 TrustedBSD
>    -r--rw-r--   1 root     archives    20645 Feb  5  2004 dir.sizes
>    226 Transfer complete.
> ftp4.uk.freebsd.org => sunsite.org.uk
>    Failed - Destination Host Unreachable
> ftp5.uk.freebsd.org => karma.freebsd-uk.eu.org
>    Failed - no response
> ftp6.uk.freebsd.org => storm.freebsd.org.uk
>    Failed - /pub/FreeBSD doesn't exist
> 
> Of the 6 mirrors, ftp2.uk.freebsd.org looks like the only usable one. 
> That's what I've been using for quite a while now with no problems.
> 
> The situation with UK mirrors for the FreeBSD website is quite messy 
> too. The home page at www.uk.freebsd.org doesn't appear to have been 
> updated for over a year, the production release is shown as 6.2 and the 
> latest security patch is listed as 2007-02-09.
> 
> The main FreeBSD site <http://www.freebsd.org/> shows a couple of UK 
> mirrors in it's drop-down list, United Kingdom/1 and United Kingdom/2, 
> which resolve to  www1.uk.freebsd.org and www3.uk.freebsd.org 
> respectively. Currently www1 appears to be down but www3 appears to be 
> OK.
> 
> I appreciate that www.uk.freebsd.org isn't listed as a mirror on the 
> main web site but it's the one many people might intuitively try to use 
> and it's a pity that it will give them such an out of date view of 
> FreeBSD.
> 
> 
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