FreeBSD Mirror for India

[KAPIL JAIN]

Hello
I’m planning to setup a FreeBSD Mirror for the FreeBSD Users from
India. I’ve already acquired the domains freebsd.org.in and
freebsdindia.com

But right now the main issue is of bandwidth in India so I was
thinking of setting up the Mirror on a US based server with good
connectivity to India. I currently have few servers with a datacentre
in US and they are now about to get bandwidth from Tata Communications
which is an Indian Company and have good connectivity to all major
Indian ISP’s as Tata Communications is one of the largest bandwidth
provider in India.

Please suggest if I should go for it? And if I setup the mirror can I
get it listed as official mirror of freebsd.org for India and whenever
bandwidth conditions improves in India or if I can get any sponsor in
India for hosting the mirror I can move the site to an Indian Server.

I can sponsor and maintain the mirror server in US till I get some
sponsor for Indian Server.

Please give your thoughts about it.

Kapil Jain
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[Rutger Bevaart-2]

Hello Kapil,

We are connected to TATA / VSNL / Teleglobe and have a public FreeBSD  
cvsup/rsync/ftp mirror at ftp.illian.net already. It's happily serving  
Indian customers for quite some time ;-)

If you'd like feel free to make a CNAME in your DNS.

Regards,
Rutger Bevaart

On Jun 27, 2009, at 11:12 AM, KAPIL JAIN wrote:

> Hello
> I’m planning to setup a FreeBSD Mirror for the FreeBSD Users from
> India. I’ve already acquired the domains freebsd.org.in and
> freebsdindia.com
>
> But right now the main issue is of bandwidth in India so I was
> thinking of setting up the Mirror on a US based server with good
> connectivity to India. I currently have few servers with a datacentre
> in US and they are now about to get bandwidth from Tata Communications
> which is an Indian Company and have good connectivity to all major
> Indian ISP’s as Tata Communications is one of the largest bandwidth
> provider in India.
>
> Please suggest if I should go for it? And if I setup the mirror can I
> get it listed as official mirror of freebsd.org for India and whenever
> bandwidth conditions improves in India or if I can get any sponsor in
> India for hosting the mirror I can move the site to an Indian Server.
>
> I can sponsor and maintain the mirror server in US till I get some
> sponsor for Indian Server.
>
> Please give your thoughts about it.
>
> Kapil Jain
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[Peter Losher-4]

On 6/27/09 10:31 AM, Rutger Bevaart wrote:
> Hello Kapil,
>
> We are connected to TATA / VSNL / Teleglobe and have a public FreeBSD
> cvsup/rsync/ftp mirror at ftp.illian.net already. It's happily serving
> Indian customers for quite some time ;-)

ditto for freebsd.isc.org (ftp4.freebsd.org & part of the ftp.freebsd.org
round-robin).  We (ISC) peer directly with both Tata Communications &
Reliance/FLAG & SingTel in the SF Bay Area, which last I checked covered
most of the connectivity in/out of the Indian sub-continent.  If I am
missing anyone, let me know. ;)

That being said Kapil, as long as you keep the mirror up to date, the
more the merrier. ;)

Best Wishes - Peter
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