Re: cdn seems slow. ping times and broadband speeds are fine

Thomas Dettbarn <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:18:25 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
First: Ping is not workload.

Second:
Cdn.
Has.
Always.
Been.
Slow.
That.
Is.
TOTALLY.
Okay.

Just use mirror and everyone will be happy!

On 7/15/26 20:02, Simon Hoffmann wrote:
>
> void wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Anyone noticing how slow the cdn.openbsd.org is for sysupgrade -s ?
>> Any reason?
>
>
> To add to this:
>
> I have performed 8 OpenBSD Server upgrades today. On all servers, it took me 55
> minutes to download base79 (about 500MB). Even if the CDN has to fetch from upstream,
> 1MBit/s seems highly unlikely.
>
> Of these 8 servers, 3 were in the same DC and I performed the update sequentially, so
> with the assumption that "CDN is literally cache" at least the other two servers
> should have been faster.
>
> I was doing sysupgrade -r, so no snapshots, just a normal release update from 7.8 to
> 7.9.
>
> Same problem yesterday.
>
> I am in Germany if that helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon
>