Bug 148513

Summary: FreeBSD New Zealand mirrors not available
Product: Documentation Reporter: Sam Lin <semin2006>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Johann Kois <jkois>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Sam Lin 2010-07-12 06:00:12 UTC 
FreeBSD New Zealand mirror servers seem not available anymore.

* On the top-right corner of http://www.freebsd.org/, choose "New Zealand" and hit Go will actually show that http://www.nz.freebsd.org/ is unavailable

* FTP mirror (ftp://ftp.nz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/) given in FreeBSD Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTER-SGML-MIRRORS-NZ-FTP) is also unavailable

* Similarly, CVSup sites (cvsup.nz.FreeBSD.org and cvsup2.nz.FreeBSD.org) given in FreeBSD Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html) are unavailable.

* "New Zealand FreeBSD Users Group" (http://nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/nzfug/) given in FreeBSD Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/usergroups.html) is also unavailable.

It seems NZ mirror servers have been unavailable for ages, and perhaps it's best to remove these dead links from the FreeBSD website as well as from the handbook.
Comment 1 Johann Kois freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-07-21 08:56:12 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->jkois

Take this one.
Comment 2 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-07-21 22:32:21 UTC 
jkois       2010-07-21 21:32:12 UTC

  FreeBSD doc repository

  Modified files:
    share/sgml           mirrors.xml 
  Log:
  PR:     docs/148513
  
  Remove New Zealand from the list of "countries with FreeBSD mirrors".
  
  All the mirrors once located there (1x HTTP, 1 FTP, 2 CVSUP) have obviously been dead for a long time.
  
  Noticed by:     Sam Lin (semin2006 att gmail dott com)
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.112     +0 -22     doc/share/sgml/mirrors.xml
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Comment 3 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-07-21 22:37:13 UTC 
jkois       2010-07-21 21:37:05 UTC

  FreeBSD doc repository

  Modified files:
    share/sgml           usergroups.xml 
  Log:
  PR:     docs/148513
  
  Remove the "New Zealand FreeBSD Users Group".  The used server (nz.FreeBSD.org) has been dead for a long time.
  
  Noticed by: Sam Lin (semin2006 att gmail dott com)
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.93      +1 -11     www/share/sgml/usergroups.xml
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Comment 4 Johann Kois freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-07-22 08:26:22 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

The proposed change to our website is now online.  Close this PR.