On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 19:52 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:48:11PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > >> I'm building kde3 from ports, and the koffice install attempts to download > >> the tar.bz2 file from ftp.scarlet.be. The download is about 2 BYTES per > >> second! > >> > >> I stopped the download and fetched the file from somewhere else. > >> > >> Maybe someone should check that site? > >> > >> Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >> Adjunct Information Security Officer > >> The University of Texas at Dallas > >> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ > >> > > > > I can confirm this. Passive vs. active FTP doesn't matter either. > > Would the owner of this mirror please take ownership? > > > > > > The problem i think is that many ports with multiple mirrors will use > mirrors from 3rd world countries first, and the mirrors with real > bandwidth will always be last on the list. Can anyone explain to me why > that is? Doesn't it make more sense to try the fastest one first?
Belgium == Third world? Now that's new :-) -- Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer
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