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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!not-for-mail From: tsuess@inspace.net (Todd Suess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Primary Site Archive Moved? Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 17:47:28 GMT Organization: Infinite Space Systems Corporation Lines: 15 Message-ID: <33a67bc9.12643590@news1.alterdial.uu.net> References: <33a3f846.508041@news1.alterdial.uu.net> <5o3s49$514@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> Reply-To: tsuess@inspace.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dev.inspace.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.01/32.397 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42892 >I always thought the primary ftp site was ftp.freebsd.org - >a CNAME for wcarchive.cdrom.com (also the same as freebsd.cdrom.com). >It's true that www.freebsd.org moved, but in name only. The machine >is physically the same piece of hardware, and was always different >from freebsd.cdrom.com (well, for the last six months anyway). > The reason I discovered this was when I went to reinstall, I tried to use ftp.freebsd.org (Primary Site) and it could not find the distribution files... I finally got it to work by specifying the url: ftp://freebsd.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD Todd