Solved Dead ftp mirrors?

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kitman

Hi,

I wanted to use the ftp mirrors for Australia as listed in the handbook to download the 10.1-RELEASE DVD iso (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html#mirrors-au-ftp)

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However the first listed ftp site is dead (which wasted a Sunday afternoon trying to find out why). When I emailed the hostmaster for the domain that email was undeliverable.

The following message to <hostmaster@au.freebsd.org> was undeliverable.
======================
The reason for the problem:
5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.7.1 <hostmaster@au.freebsd.org>... Access denied'



Reporting-MTA: dns; icp-osb-irony-out7.external.iinet.net.au

Final-Recipient: rfc822;hostmaster@au.freebsd.org
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0 (permanent failure)
Remote-MTA: dns; [123.136.33.243]
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.7.1 <hostmaster@au.freebsd.org>... Access denied' (delivery attempts: 0)
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So I emailed mirror-admin@ but received no reply.

I started using the central ftp server but have noticed that it drops out now and then, especially on weekends.

Should the handbook be updated regarding the Australian mirrors at least?

Regards,
Chris.
 
Thanks Ben, all good now using HTTP. But I would ask if it's AARNET's role to add FTP access or if the handbook should be amended.

Oddly, I use iinet as my ISP who had all the FreeBSD stuff in their freezone. But it seems iinet have not updated their site in over 6 months as 10.1 is not available and the ports are out of date. No reply from their support desk.

I'll stick with the AARNET site now.

Thanks again.
 
More issues -
Every mirror I try for Australia to get the the /distfiles folder in the ".../pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/" path has a README that says -

Our distfiles cache has been moved to:

http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/

distfiles can be fetched by name from there, as specified
in the corresponding port that uses it
​
When I try to use this new url in the "MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=" nothing is found and using "make fetch" to build ports reverts to the default location.

What gives.........are servers being reorganised? Even the freshports site was dead for ~15 minutes the other night.

Thanks.
 
I think you will find, as general rule, that ports distfiles are not mirrored in any of the FreeBSD mirror sites. They are expected to be hosted at sites/mirrors of the original software developers choosing and fetched from there when building the FreeBSD port.
 
ljboiler said:
I think you will find, as general rule, that ports distfiles are not mirrored in any of the FreeBSD mirror sites. They are expected to be hosted at sites/mirrors of the original software developers choosing and fetched from there when building the FreeBSD port.
Click to expand...

Then what is the point of the distcache server? Some original developers sites were so slow in their bandwidth that it took HOURS to download one tarball (eg one 230Mb file from the qt4 project at ~15kbps)

Regards...
 
And that is the point of the distcache server: to mirror distfiles of ports that are widely used and had complaints from many about download problems. The basic rule, however, remains that things should be fetched from their original source.
 
403 Forbidden if you don't fetch(1) a specific file, because they don't want people browsing just to see what's out there. I believe distcache.FreeBSD.org (a.k.a distcache.us-east.FreeBSD.org) is on the east coast of the U.S. You might try distcache.us-west.FreeBSD.org or distcache.eu.FreeBSD.org (in the U.K., I believe)
 
Hi ljboiler,

yes, I am aware that the specific file is required in a fetch(1), but as I was about to show you some screen outputs of my problem, the server in question now responds this evening using x11/xterm as an example.

If I fetch(1) manually -
Code: 
# fetch http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/xterm-318.tgz
xterm-318.tgz  100% of 1180 kB  403 kBps 00m03s

And if I do it via ports after deinstalling xterm and deleting the source file in /usr/ports/distfiles, the MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE now finds http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/.

Code: 
root@hpdv6:/usr/ports/x11/xterm # make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/ reinstall
===>  Found saved configuration for xterm-318
===>  xterm-318 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - found
=> xterm-318.tgz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/xterm-318.tgz
xterm-318.tgz  100% of 1180 kB  381 kBps 00m03s
===> Fetching all distfiles required by xterm-318 for building
===>  Extracting for xterm-318

This is rather annoying as the server definitely wasn't responding when I started this thread. I just don't know what to make of this.

Regards,
Chris.
 
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