How To Mirror This Site

We prefer that you mirror the server using rsync. Mirroring via HTTP is strongly discouraged for the following reasons:

• For the purposes of mirroring, HTTP is grossly inefficient and error-prone compared to rsync.
• It skews our web site statistics.
• It bugs the living crap out of the web site maintainer.

More information on rsync can be found on the rsync web site.

The following URLs can be used to mirror the web and FTP sites, respectively:

rsync://www.ethereal.com/ethereal-web

rsync://www.ethereal.com/ethereal-ftp

Ethereal-web contains the web site contents including the mailing list archives and documentation, but not the download area. Ethereal-ftp contains the download area.

For example,

    rsync -avz --delete rsync://www.ethereal.com/ethereal-web .

would sync the web site to the current directory, automatically removing any files that were deleted on the server side.

The "distribution" directory on the web site is currently a soft link to the FTP site contents. If you want to mirror the entire site, you should use both URLs.

The web site content is fairly static. You should only have to mirror it once or twice a day. Once you have your mirror up and running, send an email to ethereal-web[AT]ethereal.com and we'll add you to the list.

List of Mirrors

HTTP

Australia 1
Australia 2
Germany 1
Germany 2
Germany 3
Germany 4
Indonesia 1
Indonesia 2
Korea
Malaysia
Spain
Sweden
Taiwan
USA

FTP

Australia 1
Australia 2
Austria
Germany 1
Germany 2
Germany 3
Indonesia
Mexico
Sweden
Taiwan
USA