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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
GNU archive site
GNU mirror site
<body> The main {GNU} {FTP archive} is on gnu.org but
copies ("{mirrors}") of some or all of the files there are
also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid
overloading gnu.org and the {Internet} you should
{FTP} files from the machine closest to yours (you may be able
to use {traceroute} to determine which is logically closest if
it's not obvious from the transfer rate). Trans-ocean
{TCP/IP} links are very expensive and usually very slow.
The following {hosts} mirror GNU files. Look for a directory
like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
{Electronic mail addresses} of administrators and {Internet
address}es are given for some hosts.
Original list (ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/gnu/GNUinfo/FTP).
Australia: archie.au, archie.oz, archie.oz.au
Brazil: ccsun.unicamp.br (143.106.1.5, <[email protected]>)
Denmark: ftp.denet.dk
Europe: archive.eu.net (192.16.202.1)
Finland: ftp.funet.fi (128.214.6.100, gnu-adm)
France: irisa.irisa.fr, ftp.univ-lyon1.fr
(<[email protected]>)
Germany (ftp://ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/),
(ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/),
ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/).
Israel: ftp.technion.ac.il (<[email protected]>)
Japan: utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp, ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp
Korea: cair.kaist.ac.kr (143.248.11.170)
Netherlands: hp4nl.nluug.nl, ftp.win.tue.nl (131.155.70.100)
Norway: ugle.unit.no (129.241.1.97)
South Africa: ftp.sun.ac.za
Sweden: isy.liu.se, ftp.stacken.kth.se, ftp.luth.se,
ftp.sunet.se, <[email protected]>, sdi.slu.se.
Switzerland: ftp.eunet.ch, nic.switch.ch
Thailand: ftp.nectec.or.th (192.150.251.32,
<[email protected]>)
UK: src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.3.7, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]> also sun cartridge or exabyte tapes);
[email protected] (<[email protected]>);
[email protected] (also qic-21 and qic-24 tapes);
ftp.mcc.ac.uk (130.88.203.12); Unix.hensa.ac.uk;
ftp.warwick.ac.uk (137.205.192.14, <[email protected]>).
USA: louie.udel.edu, ftp.kpc.com (Silicon Valley, CA)
ftp.hawaii.edu, f.ms.uky.edu, ftp.digex.net (Internet address
164.109.10.23, run by <[email protected]>),
wuarchive.wustl.edu, col.hp.com, ftp.cs.columbia.edu,
vixen.cso.uiuc.edu, mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu, jaguar.utah.edu,
gatekeeper.dec.com, labrea.stanford.edu, ftp.cs.widener.edu,
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu, and ftp.uu.net.
Western Canada: ftp.cs.ubc.ca (<[email protected]>)
(1999-12-09)