On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 09:56:28PM +0100, Martin Weber wrote:
> > main server => people overload the main server => [loop detected].
> > 
> > I don't understand why people want to use the main server at all.
> > The mirrors are usually much faster (that's even more true for ftp).
> 
> ...and between one hour and many days behind the main server.
> (I use the french mirror, which sometimes is awfully out of date.)

The mirror syncs every 6 hours. Sometime a sync is skipped because the
previous one is still running, but it doesn't happen that often.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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