David Brownlee wrote:

>         It was hardcoded to www.netbsd.org as not all mirror sites handle
>         cgi - could you back this out.

  No, I'm afraid it was not.  It was just pointing to
"cgi-bin/redirect.cgi", thus breaking the mirror sites.  My commit
changed this to be hardcoded to www.netbsd.org for just that reason. 
Here's the output of "cvs rdiff -r1.196 -r1.197 -u htdocs/index.html":


Index: htdocs/index.html
diff -u htdocs/index.html:1.196 htdocs/index.html:1.197
--- htdocs/index.html:1.196     Mon Nov 22 09:15:25 1999
+++ htdocs/index.html   Mon Nov 22 23:50:56 1999
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
       </p>
       <br>
 
-    <form action="cgi-bin/redirect.cgi" method="get" name="mirrors">
+    <form action="http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi"
method="get" name="mirrors">
       <p><font face="helvetica, arial" size="+1" color="#660000">
        <b>WWW mirrors</b>
       </font>
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
   <address>
     <font color="#000000" size="-1">
       <a href="Misc/feedback.html">(Contact us)</a>
-      $NetBSD: index.html,v 1.196 1999/11/22 17:15:25 abs Exp $<br>
+      $NetBSD: index.html,v 1.197 1999/11/23 07:50:56 rh Exp $<br>
       <a href="Misc/disclaimer.html">Copyright &copy; 1996, 1997, 1998,
       1999
        The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.</a>


  I hope this clears things up ...

  Cheers
      ,
   Rene