New download location for FreeNAS (9.1.1-RC2 and beyond)

[jkh]

Hi folks,

First, sorry for the SourceForge download outage. They're evidently working on it, but we took the opportunity to complete a migration to the Content Delivery Network, which should provide better download service overall!

FreeNAS can now be found at: http://cdn.freenas.org

The 9.1.1-RC2 bits in particular may be found at: http://cdn.freenas.org/9.1.1/RC2/

Thanks!

 

[pauldonovan]

Is the content on cdn.freenas.org supposed to be mirrored around the world?

From Melbourne, Australia I'm still seeing it as located in Seattle:

Code:

tracert cdn.freenas.org
 
Tracing route to iso.pcbsd.scaleengine.net [23.81.7.110]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
 
  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.101.202.1
  2    1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  xxx-xx-xxx-xxx.customer.firenet.net.au [xxx.xxx.
xx.xxx]
  3    27 ms    27 ms    27 ms  lo-2-pe2-mel-ndc.firenet.net.au [119.63.216.225]
 
  4    37 ms    33 ms    39 ms  ge-0-1-0-bdr1-mel-dc2.firenet.net.au [119.63.216
.38]
  5    47 ms    48 ms    45 ms  ip-97.101.45.175.vocus.net.au [175.45.101.97]
  6  235 ms  243 ms  247 ms  ip-160.196.31.114.vocus.net.au [114.31.196.160]
 
  7  205 ms  199 ms  203 ms  ten-0-0-0-0.cor01.mel07.vic.vocus.net.au [114.31
.196.159]
  8  197 ms  201 ms  198 ms  ten-0-1-0-0.cor03.syd03.nsw.vocus.net.au [114.31
.196.162]
  9  200 ms  196 ms  198 ms  ten-0-5-0-1.cor01.syd04.nsw.vocus.net.au [175.45
.72.118]
10  202 ms  197 ms  195 ms  ten-0-0-0-1.cor02.sjc01.ca.vocus.net [114.31.199
.36]
11  197 ms  199 ms  196 ms  ten-2-3-0.bdr02.sjc01.ca.vocus.net.au [114.31.19
9.245]
12  197 ms  198 ms  199 ms  10gigabitethernet3-2.core1.sjc1.he.net [64.71.18
4.45]
13  206 ms  217 ms  205 ms  10gigabitethernet2-1.core1.sjc2.he.net [72.52.92
.118]
14  212 ms  218 ms  221 ms  equinix.xe-2-0-0.cr1.sjc1.us.nlayer.net [206.223
.116.61]
15  206 ms  199 ms  206 ms  ae1-70g.cr1.pao1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.143.166]
16  263 ms  260 ms  199 ms  ae1-70g.cr1.sfo1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.143.169]
17  237 ms  244 ms  242 ms  xe-1-1-0.cr1.sea1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.142.34]
18  228 ms  227 ms  240 ms  72.37.232.234
19  236 ms  252 ms  241 ms  sea1-2.pool.cdn.scaleengine.net [23.81.7.110]
 
Trace complete.

 

[FreeNAS Development Team]

So, we looked into this, and apparently Australia charges so much per gigabyte for local traffic that it's cheaper to push it from Seattle, Portland or Los Angeles. 3 cheers for Telstra!

 

[pauldonovan]

Ah, Telstra. Doesn't surprise me. Thanks for looking into it.

 

[DMooring]

I get 403 Forbidden if I try to go to the nightlies
http://cdn.freenas.org/nightlies/2013-07-29/x64/

 

[warri]

The nightlies on cdn.freenas.org seem to be quite outdated. You can find newer ones on Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-nightlies/

 

[DMooring]

These seem old also. So are all the update going to be posted on cdn or sourceforge or both?
I really just want some good info on 9.2

 

[cyberjock]

Nightlies aren't necessarily compiled daily, and they aren't always made public. You can compile FreeNAS yourself if you really want the bleeding edge. Once the current version hits beta status it is usually open to the public. At that time you can expect to see that most days a new version is available.