Re: OpenBSD mirror at the University of Costa Rica

Stuart Henderson escribis:
>
> 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).
>
>   

No problem at all. I took Kent as a reference point because they bring 
lots of software as a public service (especially, but not only, to UK 
clients).

Second alternative taken. Will be ready by April 17th. morning, I think.

> 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>
>
>   

I added the suggested stanza for ProFTPD.

Best regards.

Mario