Re: OpenBSD mirror at the University of Costa Rica

On 2009/04/16 09:34, Mario Guerra wrote:
>> Hello Mario, do you have a preferred maintainer contact email address?
>> Also please let me know which second-level site you mirror from, and how
>> often. Thanks!
>>
>>   
> Sure.
>
> [email protected] (which points to  
> [email protected] at the time).
>
> I'm mirroring from the University of Kent, UK mirror using rsync from  
> rsync.mirrorservice.org.

Would it be a big problem to switch to one of the second-level sites?
It wouldn't stop me adding your mirror, but University of Kent is a
3rd-level and I'd rather keep the fanout tree smaller if it's not a
big problem for you.. These second-level mirrors are on academic
bandwidth and are outside the USA:

  rsync://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/OpenBSD/
  rsync://rsync.de.openbsd.org/OpenBSD/

(rsync.de may be simpler as they only carry a couple of releases, you
probably need some excludes on your rsync command line if using ftp.eu
as they mirror everything back to 2.0).

It also looks like your mirror is behind a firewall or NAT which doesn't
know about the EPSV/EPRT commands which some ftp clients, including the
usual OpenBSD one, use by default. It would make things easier for users
if you can disable these at the ftp server (unless the firewall can be
changed to work with them). Since you use ProFTPD it looks like this
might work:

<Global>
        <Limit EPSV EPRT>
                DenyAll
        </Limit>
</Global>

> Also, the download is ending tomorrow (April 17) morning, I guess.

Great, thanks!

Kind regards,
Stuart