update3.freebsd.org gone?

[Cejka Rudolf]

Ferdinand Goldmann wrote (2021/01/19):
> Hello,
> until recently I mostly used update3.freebsd.org for upgrading my FreeBSD
> installations since I found that it was much much faster at my location than
> the other ones.
> 
> However this server does not seem to exist anymore:
> # host update3.freebsd.org
> Host update3.freebsd.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> 
> Does anybody know what happened to it or of it will ever come back? As far as I
> understand this was the only FreeBSD update server in Europe, and losing it
> makes updating quite a bit more time consuming.

Hello, yes, it is gone. As I was informed, mirrons are in AWS now and you could
try aws.update.freebsd.org.

Best regards.

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Rudolf Cejka <cejkar at fit.vut.cz> http://www.fit.vut.cz/~cejkar
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology
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