portsnap mirror servers

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:43:52AM +0100, Chris wrote:
> How many mirrors does portsnap have, it seems to only have around 3 or
> 4 and they all located in the .us whilst cvs has dozens around the
> world.
> 
> Is there a eu pool of mirrors available to use or if not is their a
> way I can apply to host an eu mirror or even 2 eu mirrors.

According to Colin's writeup here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/funding.html

  > Right now [the mirroring code] uses around one thousand times more
  > bandwidth than an individual client machine; as a result, I've been
  > asking people to use the existing mirrors rather than creating their
  > own, but for a variety of reasons this isn't ideal for everybody.

Hopefully that will be fixed this summer and then we'll have lots of
mirrors.

-- Brooks

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