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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!kettle.magna.com.au!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!spcuna!tzlink.j51.com!lepslog From: lepslog@j51.com (Louis Epstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd Subject: Re: Mirror sites for FTP Uneven!! Date: 8 Oct 1995 14:22:15 GMT Organization: TZ-Link, a public-access online community in Nyack, NY. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <458mqn$ea3@tzlink.j51.com> References: <451qef$5n3@tzlink.j51.com> <454ga3$nti@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: j51.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Carl Harris (ceharris@csugrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote: : Louis Epstein (lepslog@j51.com) wrote: : : Since I can't always get through to the master FTP site,I checked out the : : various USA mirrors today...of those I could get through to,I note that : : neosoft.com has a fresh SNAP from *today*,while cslab.vt has one from last : : Isn't there any way to keep the "mirrors" more current and consistent? : Our mirror (ftp.cslab.vt.edu) is typically only one day behind any : new releases. This is almost unavoidable since we can (reasonably) : update the mirror only once daily. This happens at around 0300 EST, : so were usually bound to miss the first 24 hours of any new release... : ... and Jordan usually releases at least one boot floppy update during : that 24-hour interval anyway, so when we mirror the new release for the : first time we get the floppy updates then, too! ;) ;) ;) : We could maybe mirror later in the day, our time, to have a better : shot of getting new releases within 24 hours of the release time, : but we're trying to take advantage of the minimum usage interval on : our T1 to the backbone. Sorry. Before we came along there were no : east coast mirrors to speak of -- in that respect, waiting a day ain't : so bad. Well,I'd guess that that DEC site that still has 1.1.5.1 is on the East Coast...no question you're more current than that,though!!