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[20120131] IPv4 address change for {many}.NetBSD.org
spz@ announces: ``{mail, www, anoncvs, blog, wiki, releng}.NetBSD.org are changing IPv4 address from something in 204.152.190 to something in 149.20.53. Do not be alarmed. :)

There may be some glitches due to IP addresses hiding in unexpected corners; we apologize in advance for any issues caused by the renumbering.

The old addresses are going to be available at least another week.''

Background of this change that the ISP of most of the NetBSD services requires renumbering. Of course this only affects IPv4, not IPv6 :-)

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[20090208] Hardware upgrade for *.fr.netbsd.org (Updated)
Manuel Bouyer runs french mirrors for FTP, WWW, SUP, AnonCVS and rsync for NetBSD under {ftp,www,sup,anoncvs,rsync}.fr.netbsd.org. From my personal experience, the services are very stable, fast, and well connected. So far, they all ran on a PIII with 1GHz of CPU, 1GB RAM, a bunch of SCSI disks plus more disks in a SCSI-to-PATA RAID enclosure. Now, there's a hardware upgrade, and the new system is a Dual Athlon64 CPU, 4GB RAM and 3 SATA disks behind an ICP RAID Controller.

Manuel writes that ``The thing is of course running NetBSD/amd64 5.0_RC1 in SMP modehis mail to netbsd-users@ for the full announcement.

Update: My thanks for this great service doesn't only go to Manuel, but also his employer who makes this possible, the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6.

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[20070612] www.NetBSD.org facelifting
For all those that haven't noticed: www.NetBSD.org got a major facelifting, thanks to a lot of work done by Daniel Sieger.

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[20070423] NetBSD.se goes wild
The guys running NetBSD.se have extended their list of services that previously already including anoncvs, cvsup, rsync, cvsweb and www-mirror to now mirror pkgsrc-wip as well, offering it via anonocvs, cvsup and cvsweb. this was made possible due to new server hardware.

Some useful links:



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[20070104] Reminder: need a NetBSD-job? Subscribe to the netbsd-jobs@ list!
There's a NetBSD mailing list on which I've seen several mails recently, and of which I'm not sure its existance is widely known: The netbsd-jobs mailing list is admittedly fairly low-traffic, but every now and then people publically do admit that they hire NetBSD hackers. :-) Have a look!

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[20061019] On the edge of time
Unix counts the time in seconds since 'the epoch', i.e. Jan 1st 1970. Given that the timecounting is usually done in an 32bit integer, there's an upper limit for the number somewhen in the year 2038. If you've always wondered how NetBSD and other BSDs react at that very second, see this report from M.K. in copm.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc (found on Symlink).

While it's sort of known that there is a problem and that the time will warp back, fixing this isn't so easy, as the data type used to store the time in Unix is also used in many places on the harddisk, e.g. the file access, modification and inode modification times for each file on your harddisk would be affected. To move to some 64bit time_t, basically all filesystems would need changing. While modern filesystems are designed with this in mind, BSD's FFS-based filesystems do have this issue, though, and will have to come up with a solution in the next ~30 years.

Any takers? :-)

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[20060805] Slovak Republik NetBSD site: NetBSD.sk
Lubomir Kundrak told me on IRC that he has started adding contents to www.NetBSD.sk, such as an article on pkgsrc and news in general. Lubomir says that ``The website is intended to support Czech and Slovak *BSD community, by providing space to exchange experience, share knowledge, etc. It will be regularly updated with news and articles regarding BSD in slovak language, individuals can create their blogs here, or discuss issues in discussion forums.

We're still collecting ideas what else could be done to support comunity. As there were efforts to translate the NetBSD guide, in close future we look forward to support these efforts by encouraging people to participate.''

There's still a lot of work to be done, e.g. on graphics. Several people are registered already, and after an article on root.cz more people are joining in to add content to the site.

Keep up the good work, guys!

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[20060517] HTTP access to ftp.NetBSD.org
In the context of some hardware shuffling and whatnot, ftp.NetBSD.org is now also availabe by http, in addition to ftp: click. (For those that need it)

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