At 01:03 AM 1/25/00 -0800, Bill Swingle wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 11:43:59PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > By chance, playing around with the fact that current.freebsd.org is an
> > alias for usw2.freebsd.org, I found that usw3.freebsd.org (209.180.6.227)
> > mirrors snapshots as well. Perhaps something should be added to the
> > /snapshots readme.txt on ftp.freebsd.org about the fact that
> > current.freebsd.org has mirrors. That said, I've gotten the same error
> > from usw3 as from usw2.
>
>I can't really speak to your download problems but it should be noted
>that usw2 and usw3 are in the same facility at USWest, in fact they're
>probably in the very same rack as each other. Noting that this other
>'mirror' is available would not do much good as they both sit on the
>exact same bandwidth.
I'm sure this is a silly question, but then why does usw3 appear to _be_ a
mirror? Why have usw3 at all?
-David
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