From mspitzer at gmail.com  Wed Jun  1 12:33:10 2011
From: mspitzer at gmail.com (Marc Spitzer)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 12:33:10 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] interesting article on geting the best bang for
 your buck on hosting websites
In-Reply-To: <46EE21DB773C384D91FC9A87DFCB83C5195C4E@EXMBX07.netplexity.local>
References: <46EE21DB773C384D91FC9A87DFCB83C5195C4E@EXMBX07.netplexity.local>
Message-ID: <BANLkTim+LYAjsxgie1WMHuQnMEprinShyA@mail.gmail.com>

well this is from 2009

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Hans Zaunere <hz at stackware.com> wrote:
>> http://markmaunder.com/2009/how-to-handle-1000s-of-concurrent-users-on-a-360mb-vps/
>
> Though this begs the obvious question - why not just drop Apache... I have for the most part.
>
> H
>
>



-- 
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
--Albert Camus

?The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people's money.
--Margaret Thatcher


From mspitzer at gmail.com  Thu Jun  2 18:13:37 2011
From: mspitzer at gmail.com (Marc Spitzer)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 18:13:37 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] Summer con is coming up next week
Message-ID: <BANLkTinRLR23DHfxPCbYO9+tfPUjk3uthg@mail.gmail.com>

SummerCON 2011: June 10-12

http://www.summercon.org/

It was a good con last year


marc

-- 
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
--Albert Camus

?The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people's money.
--Margaret Thatcher


From george at ceetonetechnology.com  Fri Jun  3 21:49:22 2011
From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond)
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:49:22 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] OpenSSH book
Message-ID: <4DE98F22.2050209@ceetonetechnology.com>

Looks like Michael Lucas is aiming towards self-publishing a book just 
on OpenSSH:

http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/881

I think back to the manner in which Dru has queried people for book 
content and tips, and imagine we could do the same for an OpenSSH book, 
if there's a need.

More likely, it would be cool to do a launch-type meeting.  Heck, maybe 
ML will even provide a top-shelf open bar at a high-end restaurant for 
it.  I know the 21 Club has appropriate rooms!

g


From spork at bway.net  Fri Jun  3 23:19:42 2011
From: spork at bway.net (Charles Sprickman)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 23:19:42 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [nycbug-talk] OpenSSH book
In-Reply-To: <4DE98F22.2050209@ceetonetechnology.com>
References: <4DE98F22.2050209@ceetonetechnology.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1106032313420.1983@hotlap.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>

On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, George Rosamond wrote:

> Looks like Michael Lucas is aiming towards self-publishing a book just on 
> OpenSSH:
>
> http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/881
>
> I think back to the manner in which Dru has queried people for book content 
> and tips, and imagine we could do the same for an OpenSSH book, if there's a 
> need.

I am going to bet I'm not alone in not keeping up with all the new 
features that have rolled out since I started using OpenSSH.  As it 
stands, I use it daily and I'm probably missing out on enough to, well, 
fill a small book.  I think mwl's project will be a smashing success.

OT, but another fun mini-book would be "Learn to use tmux, you damn 
fool!".  Especially after seeing some of the plans to integrate iTerm2 
with tmux:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ABI0kqUUxoAjxhWW3AsWFis6bgvMoEbcTcA2N21ncmU/edit?hl=en&authkey=COHZn78P&pli=1

Charles

> More likely, it would be cool to do a launch-type meeting.  Heck, maybe ML 
> will even provide a top-shelf open bar at a high-end restaurant for it.  I 
> know the 21 Club has appropriate rooms!

> g
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at lists.nycbug.org
> http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
>


From bcully at gmail.com  Fri Jun  3 23:39:28 2011
From: bcully at gmail.com (Brian Cully)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 23:39:28 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] OpenSSH book
In-Reply-To: <4DE98F22.2050209@ceetonetechnology.com>
References: <4DE98F22.2050209@ceetonetechnology.com>
Message-ID: <CC0CCE32-974D-4D75-814E-8AB7E1CD7054@gmail.com>

On Jun 3, 2011, at 21:49, George Rosamond <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
> I think back to the manner in which Dru has queried people for book content and tips, and imagine we could do the same for an OpenSSH book, if there's a need.

OpenSSH is a neat tool. On the one hand it offers a very simple "give me a shell" functionality which will at least encrypt traffic and prevent MITM attacks. On the other hand it has some powerful, although somewhat esoteric uses.

The simple stuff doesn't really need explanation, IMHO. I'd love to see something that covers forward and reverse tunnels, auth mechanism integration, security/convenience tradeoffs of passwords vs. GSSAPI vs. DSA keys, why agent forwarding can be a bad idea and why it can be a good idea, and discussion of some of the stranger features like, say, UseLogin.

OK, the last one was to stroke my ego. Does anyone actually use UseLogin?

-bjc

From jhb at freebsd.org  Mon Jun  6 08:55:36 2011
From: jhb at freebsd.org (John Baldwin)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 08:55:36 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] OpenSSH book
In-Reply-To: <CC0CCE32-974D-4D75-814E-8AB7E1CD7054@gmail.com>
References: <4DE98F22.2050209@ceetonetechnology.com>
	<CC0CCE32-974D-4D75-814E-8AB7E1CD7054@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <201106060855.36371.jhb@freebsd.org>

On Friday, June 03, 2011 11:39:28 pm Brian Cully wrote:
> On Jun 3, 2011, at 21:49, George Rosamond <george at ceetonetechnology.com> 
wrote:
> > I think back to the manner in which Dru has queried people for book 
content and tips, and imagine we could do the same for an OpenSSH book, if 
there's a need.
> 
> OpenSSH is a neat tool. On the one hand it offers a very simple "give me a 
shell" functionality which will at least encrypt traffic and prevent MITM 
attacks. On the other hand it has some powerful, although somewhat esoteric 
uses.
> 
> The simple stuff doesn't really need explanation, IMHO. I'd love to see 
something that covers forward and reverse tunnels, auth mechanism integration, 
security/convenience tradeoffs of passwords vs. GSSAPI vs. DSA keys, why agent 
forwarding can be a bad idea and why it can be a good idea, and discussion of 
some of the stranger features like, say, UseLogin.
> 
> OK, the last one was to stroke my ego. Does anyone actually use UseLogin?

I've used it at a past job to make ssh connections respect /etc/login.access.

-- 
John Baldwin


From mwlucas at blackhelicopters.org  Mon Jun  6 09:20:30 2011
From: mwlucas at blackhelicopters.org (Michael W. Lucas)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 09:20:30 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] OpenSSH book
In-Reply-To: <201106060855.36371.jhb@freebsd.org>
References: <4DE98F22.2050209@ceetonetechnology.com>
	<CC0CCE32-974D-4D75-814E-8AB7E1CD7054@gmail.com>
	<201106060855.36371.jhb@freebsd.org>
Message-ID: <20110606132030.GA83211@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:55:36AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday, June 03, 2011 11:39:28 pm Brian Cully wrote:
> > On Jun 3, 2011, at 21:49, George Rosamond <george at ceetonetechnology.com> 
> wrote:
> > > I think back to the manner in which Dru has queried people for book 
> content and tips, and imagine we could do the same for an OpenSSH book, if 
> there's a need.
> > 
> > OpenSSH is a neat tool. On the one hand it offers a very simple "give me a 
> shell" functionality which will at least encrypt traffic and prevent MITM 
> attacks. On the other hand it has some powerful, although somewhat esoteric 
> uses.
> > 
> > The simple stuff doesn't really need explanation, IMHO. I'd love to see 
> something that covers forward and reverse tunnels, auth mechanism integration, 
> security/convenience tradeoffs of passwords vs. GSSAPI vs. DSA keys, why agent 
> forwarding can be a bad idea and why it can be a good idea, and discussion of 
> some of the stranger features like, say, UseLogin.
> > 
> > OK, the last one was to stroke my ego. Does anyone actually use UseLogin?
> 
> I've used it at a past job to make ssh connections respect /etc/login.access.


That's precisely the sort of weird edge case I'm NOT covering.  :-)

I am doing tunnels and security of agent forwarding, but not GSSAPI
and complex auth mechanisms.  The latter vary wildly depending on
operating system.

My target reader has downloaded PuTTY, typed in a username and
password, and says "I'm secure!"  Once you have a handle on keys, X11
forwarding, and restricting certain keys to certain commands (for
automated use), they'll be able to use man pages and google for that
weird crap.

==ml

-- 
Michael W. Lucas 	
http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/
Latest book: Network Flow Analysis http://www.networkflowanalysis.com/
mwlucas at BlackHelicopters.org, Twitter @mwlauthor


From drulavigne at sympatico.ca  Mon Jun  6 11:24:16 2011
From: drulavigne at sympatico.ca (Dru Lavigne)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 15:24:16 +0000
Subject: [nycbug-talk] IPv6-only testing snapshots
Message-ID: <BAY151-w34C1DF350DE72AB1330104AC600@phx.gbl>


Some of the people on this list might have some fun with the IPv6-only testing snapshots for FreeBSD and PC-BSD:

http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2011/06/freebsd-foundation-and-ixsystems.html

http://blog.pcbsd.org/2011/06/ipv6-only-version-of-pc-bsd-9-0-available-for-world-ipv6-day/

Cheers,

Dru
 		 	   		  
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From ike at blackskyresearch.net  Mon Jun  6 12:04:17 2011
From: ike at blackskyresearch.net (Isaac Levy)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:04:17 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] tcp socket accept round robin?
Message-ID: <201106061605.p56G52TB009273@rs75.luxsci.com>

Hi All,

A strange question:

On FreeBSD: Does anyone know how to force accept on a tcp socket to go round robin?  Or perhaps to make it flap between 2 backends?  Doing some hacking to solve a problem with spawn-fcgi, and trying to find system tunable, syscall, or other mechanism to make this happen.

Best,
.ike




From mikel.king at olivent.com  Mon Jun  6 13:14:49 2011
From: mikel.king at olivent.com (mikel king)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 13:14:49 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] OpenSSH book
In-Reply-To: <20110606132030.GA83211@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
References: <4DE98F22.2050209@ceetonetechnology.com>
	<CC0CCE32-974D-4D75-814E-8AB7E1CD7054@gmail.com>
	<201106060855.36371.jhb@freebsd.org>
	<20110606132030.GA83211@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
Message-ID: <1C007D1B-729B-4087-824C-866B03F7947A@olivent.com>


On Jun 6, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Michael W. Lucas wrote:

> That's precisely the sort of weird edge case I'm NOT covering.  :-)
> 
> I am doing tunnels and security of agent forwarding, but not GSSAPI
> and complex auth mechanisms.  The latter vary wildly depending on
> operating system.
> 
> My target reader has downloaded PuTTY, typed in a username and
> password, and says "I'm secure!"  Once you have a handle on keys, X11
> forwarding, and restricting certain keys to certain commands (for
> automated use), they'll be able to use man pages and google for that
> weird crap.
> 
> ==ml


So you'll not likely be covering rendezvous points and the like?

Regards,
Mikel



From george at ceetonetechnology.com  Mon Jun  6 14:40:52 2011
From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond)
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:40:52 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] OpenSSH book
In-Reply-To: <1C007D1B-729B-4087-824C-866B03F7947A@olivent.com>
References: <4DE98F22.2050209@ceetonetechnology.com>	<CC0CCE32-974D-4D75-814E-8AB7E1CD7054@gmail.com>	<201106060855.36371.jhb@freebsd.org>	<20110606132030.GA83211@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
	<1C007D1B-729B-4087-824C-866B03F7947A@olivent.com>
Message-ID: <4DED1F34.5040409@ceetonetechnology.com>

On 06/06/11 13:14, mikel king wrote:
>
> On Jun 6, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
>
>> That's precisely the sort of weird edge case I'm NOT covering.  :-)
>>
>> I am doing tunnels and security of agent forwarding, but not GSSAPI
>> and complex auth mechanisms.  The latter vary wildly depending on
>> operating system.
>>
>> My target reader has downloaded PuTTY, typed in a username and
>> password, and says "I'm secure!"  Once you have a handle on keys, X11
>> forwarding, and restricting certain keys to certain commands (for
>> automated use), they'll be able to use man pages and google for that
>> weird crap.
>>
>> ==ml
>
>
> So you'll not likely be covering rendezvous points and the like?
>

I think the point ML is making about the audience is important.

It's for PUTTY users. . . think about what next steps the majority of 
those users need.

Tunneling would certainly be front and center from my guess, as using keys.

There's nothing wrong with people raising more advanced functions and 
configs with ssh or sshd, since some of that stuff might fit in.  And 
actually, I think it's a cool idea to add a section for "the 
adventurous" as mundane as the points might be to many others.

But it seems to be, this is the "next step" for users just putty'g 
without keys, not knowing how to create tunnels, etc.

I suspect these are the people who haven't been smart enough to tunnel 
their traffic at technical conferences :)

g


From mspitzer at gmail.com  Mon Jun  6 19:01:20 2011
From: mspitzer at gmail.com (Marc Spitzer)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:01:20 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] tcp socket accept round robin?
In-Reply-To: <201106061605.p56G52TB009273@rs75.luxsci.com>
References: <201106061605.p56G52TB009273@rs75.luxsci.com>
Message-ID: <BANLkTikAx-VHA6hx6MkZKX-nsP1qjYtKug@mail.gmail.com>

are we talking client or server?  perhaps haproxy would do:
http://haproxy.1wt.eu/

marc

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Isaac Levy <ike at blackskyresearch.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A strange question:
>
> On FreeBSD: Does anyone know how to force accept on a tcp socket to go round robin? ?Or perhaps to make it flap between 2 backends? ?Doing some hacking to solve a problem with spawn-fcgi, and trying to find system tunable, syscall, or other mechanism to make this happen.
>
> Best,
> .ike
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at lists.nycbug.org
> http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
>



-- 
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
--Albert Camus

?The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people's money.
--Margaret Thatcher


From bonsaime at gmail.com  Mon Jun  6 19:12:45 2011
From: bonsaime at gmail.com (Jesse Callaway)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:12:45 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] tcp socket accept round robin?
In-Reply-To: <201106061605.p56G52TB009273@rs75.luxsci.com>
References: <201106061605.p56G52TB009273@rs75.luxsci.com>
Message-ID: <BANLkTikC2arqpKCZY3US4Ua6WX8VpSK4tw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Isaac Levy <ike at blackskyresearch.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A strange question:
>
> On FreeBSD: Does anyone know how to force accept on a tcp socket to go round robin? ?Or perhaps to make it flap between 2 backends? ?Doing some hacking to solve a problem with spawn-fcgi, and trying to find system tunable, syscall, or other mechanism to make this happen.
>
> Best,
> .ike
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at lists.nycbug.org
> http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
>

Isn't that an application-level decision? I'm not sure... what's up?
I'm interested.

-- 
-jesse


From george at ceetonetechnology.com  Tue Jun  7 00:20:20 2011
From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond)
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:20:20 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] tcp socket accept round robin?
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikC2arqpKCZY3US4Ua6WX8VpSK4tw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <201106061605.p56G52TB009273@rs75.luxsci.com>
	<BANLkTikC2arqpKCZY3US4Ua6WX8VpSK4tw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4DEDA704.9050407@ceetonetechnology.com>

On 06/06/11 19:12, Jesse Callaway wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Isaac Levy<ike at blackskyresearch.net>  wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A strange question:
>>
>> On FreeBSD: Does anyone know how to force accept on a tcp socket to go round robin?  Or perhaps to make it flap between 2 backends?  Doing some hacking to solve a problem with spawn-fcgi, and trying to find system tunable, syscall, or other mechanism to make this happen.
>>
>> Best,
>> .ike
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> talk mailing list
>> talk at lists.nycbug.org
>> http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
>>
>
> Isn't that an application-level decision? I'm not sure... what's up?
> I'm interested.

That's really the main question I'm guessing. . . he said "tcp sockets" 
not application sessions.  Wrong layer. . .

g


From bonsaime at gmail.com  Tue Jun  7 00:23:48 2011
From: bonsaime at gmail.com (Jesse Callaway)
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 00:23:48 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] OpenSSH book
In-Reply-To: <4DED1F34.5040409@ceetonetechnology.com>
References: <4DE98F22.2050209@ceetonetechnology.com>
	<CC0CCE32-974D-4D75-814E-8AB7E1CD7054@gmail.com>
	<201106060855.36371.jhb@freebsd.org>
	<20110606132030.GA83211@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
	<1C007D1B-729B-4087-824C-866B03F7947A@olivent.com>
	<4DED1F34.5040409@ceetonetechnology.com>
Message-ID: <BANLkTimy-99qCt7oOZeR8mPc_pYLBnvBjQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Jun 6, 2011 2:42 PM, "George Rosamond" <george at ceetonetechnology.com>
wrote:
>
> On 06/06/11 13:14, mikel king wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Jun 6, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
>>
>>> That's precisely the sort of weird edge case I'm NOT covering.  :-)
>>>
>>> I am doing tunnels and security of agent forwarding, but not GSSAPI
>>> and complex auth mechanisms.  The latter vary wildly depending on
>>> operating system.
>>>
>>> My target reader has downloaded PuTTY, typed in a username and
>>> password, and says "I'm secure!"  Once you have a handle on keys, X11
>>> forwarding, and restricting certain keys to certain commands (for
>>> automated use), they'll be able to use man pages and google for that
>>> weird crap.
>>>
>>> ==ml
>>
>>
>>
>> So you'll not likely be covering rendezvous points and the like?
>>
>
> I think the point ML is making about the audience is important.
>
> It's for PUTTY users. . . think about what next steps the majority of
those users need.
>
> Tunneling would certainly be front and center from my guess, as using
keys.
>
> There's nothing wrong with people raising more advanced functions and
configs with ssh or sshd, since some of that stuff might fit in.  And
actually, I think it's a cool idea to add a section for "the adventurous" as
mundane as the points might be to many others.
>
> But it seems to be, this is the "next step" for users just putty'g without
keys, not knowing how to create tunnels, etc.
>
> I suspect these are the people who haven't been smart enough to tunnel
their traffic at technical conferences :)
>
>
> g
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at lists.nycbug.org
> http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

I'd cover how to convert keys from one format to another, viz openssh vs rfc
vs? file permissions, possibly.
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From mwlucas at blackhelicopters.org  Wed Jun 15 10:54:13 2011
From: mwlucas at blackhelicopters.org (Michael W. Lucas)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:54:13 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] OpenSSH book
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimy-99qCt7oOZeR8mPc_pYLBnvBjQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4DE98F22.2050209@ceetonetechnology.com>
	<CC0CCE32-974D-4D75-814E-8AB7E1CD7054@gmail.com>
	<201106060855.36371.jhb@freebsd.org>
	<20110606132030.GA83211@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
	<1C007D1B-729B-4087-824C-866B03F7947A@olivent.com>
	<4DED1F34.5040409@ceetonetechnology.com>
	<BANLkTimy-99qCt7oOZeR8mPc_pYLBnvBjQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20110615145413.GA34397@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>

One last post on this.  Now looking for prepub reviewers.

http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/902

==ml

-- 
Michael W. Lucas 	
http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/
Latest book: Network Flow Analysis http://www.networkflowanalysis.com/
mwlucas at BlackHelicopters.org, Twitter @mwlauthor


From jpb at jimby.name  Mon Jun 20 22:24:37 2011
From: jpb at jimby.name (Jim B.)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:24:37 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] Binary Package Repos Help Needed
Message-ID: <20110621022437.GA13366@jimby.name>

Hi All,

Can anyone advise me on the best location(s) to mirror
just the binary package repos for DFly, Free, Net, and Open?

Starting with Free, my rsync keeps crapping out:
rsync -av ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org::pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages/ \
  /usr/home/jpb/Downloads/packages-FreeBSD-8.2-release

The Czech mirror is the only one I can find that will let me
mirror just the package repo, but about 100 or so files into
the transfer, it craps out.  Might be me, might be them.  I dunno.
Different every time.  I do have enough disk space.

I also need a good source for the package repos (only!) from
the other projects.  I'd be fine with weekly updates.

Note- I don't need the ports collection- just binary packages
or pkgsrc for i386 (32 bit) architecture only.


Any help most appreciated!

Cheers,
Jim B.




From george at ceetonetechnology.com  Mon Jun 20 22:54:26 2011
From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:54:26 -0400
Subject: [nycbug-talk] Binary Package Repos Help Needed
In-Reply-To: <20110621022437.GA13366@jimby.name>
References: <20110621022437.GA13366@jimby.name>
Message-ID: <4E0007E2.3020309@ceetonetechnology.com>

On 06/20/11 22:24, Jim B. wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone advise me on the best location(s) to mirror
> just the binary package repos for DFly, Free, Net, and Open?
>
> Starting with Free, my rsync keeps crapping out:
> rsync -av ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org::pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages/ \
>    /usr/home/jpb/Downloads/packages-FreeBSD-8.2-release
>
> The Czech mirror is the only one I can find that will let me
> mirror just the package repo, but about 100 or so files into
> the transfer, it craps out.  Might be me, might be them.  I dunno.
> Different every time.  I do have enough disk space./
>
> I also need a good source for the package repos (only!) from
> the other projects.  I'd be fine with weekly updates.
>
> Note- I don't need the ports collection- just binary packages
> or pkgsrc for i386 (32 bit) architecture only.
>
>
> Any help most appreciated!
>

Just on the FreeBSD rsync issue, it looks fine when I hit the UK 
rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/.

But ftp in to check the path. . . my package path and syntax is 
different.  I'm using:

rsync -av 
rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org:/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable .

Not sure about why you're getting dropped. . . maybe your ISP thinks 
your streaming video :)

ftp13 in the US seems to be topping out at 30 connections.

HTH

g