freebsd-update and speed

[Rainer Duffner]

> Am 16.04.2021 um 10:17 schrieb Ferdinand Goldmann <ferdinand.goldmann at jku.at>:
> 
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> It’s OK-ish most of the time here (CH).
>> 
>> It does *NOT* work through a proxy, due to the use of pipelined http-requests.
>> 
>> What’s your internet-connection?
> 
> The 10Gbit uplink of my university, directly connected to the internet, not
> behind a proxy. I don't think that's the problem. When update3 was still online
> I'd always use that and updates were really fast back then.
> 
> Now that update3 is gone all update servers seem to be in the US or Australia.
> 
> After waiting for nearly one hour:
> 
> ..8530....8540....8550....8560....8570....8580....8590....8600....8610....8620....8630....8640....8650....8660....8670....8680....8690....8700....  done.
> Applying patches... done.
> Fetching 9628 files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
> 0a4626107f3700cf5f87bd9c123bf427bd5a8561aadc2eca1d1605465c090935 has incorrect hash.
> 
> This is getting kind of tiresome. :(
> 
> Regards
> Ferdinand




There seems to be a problem with update4.

I now have this, too.


I’m cc-ing clusteradm and dnsadmin, in hope that there’s somebody there who can either fix it or take update4 out of the srv record…


:-(

I would rather just mirror the update server but I think this is not supposed to be done?