We've added quite a few new CVSup mirror sites this year. I thought
it might be a good idea to list them, in the hope that some of you
would help spread the load by switching to them for your CVSup
updates.
One common misconception is that cvsup(N+1).FreeBSD.org is somehow
less up-to-date than or not as good as cvsup(N).FreeBSD.org. That's
not the case at all -- the numbers mean nothing. For example, all 7
of the US mirror sites get their updates hourly from the same master
site. (So do most of the non-US mirrors.) The only reasons to choose
one over another are (1) to get a good network route to the mirror,
and (2) to get a lightly-loaded mirror.
In the US, cvsup[1-3] are very busy; clients get turned away from them
on a regular basis because they are already at their limit. The other
4 mirrors are practically idle in comparison. These are all screaming
fast, well-connected, well-maintained mirrors. Give them a try if you
haven't already!
As far as I can reconstruct from the revision history of the FreeBSD
Handbook, these are the mirrors that have been added since the
beginning of 1999:
Brazil
cvsup2.br.FreeBSD.org
cvsup3.br.FreeBSD.org
China
cvsup.cn.FreeBSD.org
Czech Republic
cvsup.cz.FreeBSD.org
Finland
cvsup2.fi.FreeBSD.org
France
cvsup.fr.FreeBSD.org
Korea
cvsup.kr.FreeBSD.org
Netherlands
cvsup2.nl.FreeBSD.org
Russia
cvsup2.ru.FreeBSD.org
Spain
cvsup.es.FreeBSD.org
Taiwan
cvsup2.tw.FreeBSD.org
cvsup3.tw.FreeBSD.org
United Kingdom
cvsup2.uk.FreeBSD.org
USA
cvsup4.FreeBSD.org
cvsup6.FreeBSD.org
cvsup7.FreeBSD.org
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John Polstra
CVSup Mirrormeister
PS - Please don't start that "Why don't we use round-robin DNS?"
discussion again. There are technical reasons why it isn't feasible
currently. Maybe someday.
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