Hi all, There are now more freebsd-update mirrors and it looks like they're handling the load quite well. It's possible that the load balancing between mirrors will need to be tweaked a bit. If you have problems accessing a mirror (e.g., if freebsd-update exits with an error of "downloading files... failed" or complains that a file does not exist) please: 1. Try again using the -s option to make sure that you're accessing the same mirror (to make sure that this wasn't a temporary network glitch). 2. Assuming the first mirror still fails, use the -s option to pick a different mirror. 3. Assuming that the second mirror works, send me an email telling me which mirror failed and which one worked so that I can have the load balancing adjusted. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
On 09/01/2009, at 7:19 AM, Colin Percival wrote:> 2. Assuming the first mirror still fails, use the -s option to pick > a different > mirror.Where can we find a list of mirrors? Ari Maniatis --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A
Aristedes Maniatis wrote:> > On 09/01/2009, at 7:19 AM, Colin Percival wrote: > >> 2. Assuming the first mirror still fails, use the -s option to pick a >> different >> mirror. > > Where can we find a list of mirrors?The list of is distributed via DNS SRV records: # host -t srv _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org prints a list of the mirrors (currently update1 through update4, but that is subject to change). -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid