FTP Mirrors

Available Mirrors

• ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/   [DE]
• ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/openssl/   [CH]
• http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/openssl/   [CH]
• ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/crypt/cryptography/libs/openssl/   [FI]
• ftp://ftp.pca.dfn.de/pub/tools/net/openssl/   [DE]
• ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/security/openssl/   [NO]
• ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/security/tools/net/openssl/   [SE]
• ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/openssl/   [AU]
• ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/security/openssl/   [AT]
• ftp://ftp.kfki.hu/pub/packages/security/openssl/   [HU]
• ftp://guest.kuria.katowice.pl/pub/openssl/   [PL]
• ftp://ftp.infoscience.co.jp/pub/Crypto/SSL/openssl/   [JP]
• ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/openssl/   [CZ]
• ftp://ftp.linux.hr/pub/openssl/   [HR]
• ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/openssl/   [AU]
• ftp://ftp.grmbl.com/pub/openssl/   [BE]
• ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/OpenSSL/   [GR]
• http://openssl.linux-mirror.org/   [DE]
• http://www.securehost.com/mirror/openssl/   [BS]
• http://www.very-clever.com/download/openssl/   [DE]
• http://openssl.parentinginformed.com/   [CA]
• http://openssl.initrd.net/   [DE]
• ftp://ftp.tpnet.pl/pub/security/openssl/   [PL]
• rsync://ftp.tpnet.pl/pub/security/openssl/   [PL]
• http://openssl.skazkaforyou.com/   [CA]
• http://openssl.raffsoftware.com/   [CA]
• http://artfiles.org/openssl.org/   [DE]

Establishing a Mirror

Setup a mirror through RSYNC

1. Make sure you have the excellent RSYNC client program (`rsync') installed on your system. If not, please grab the RSYNC distribution first and install it. You can found RSYNC on http://rsync.samba.org/rsync/ and ftp://rsync.samba.org/pub/rsync/. We recommend you to install version 2.2.1 or higher.

2. With the following command you now can check which packages are available through the RSYNC service from rsync://ftp.openssl.org/:

   $ rsync rsync://ftp.openssl.org/

   Here the openssl-ftp package is what you usually want to mirror. It contains all OpenSSL distribution tarballs.

3. Now you have to decide to which local directory you want to mirror the OpenSSL distribution; say /home/ftp/pub/openssl/. Then all you have to do is setup a Cron job which regularly runs the following command:

   $ rsync -rztpv --delete \ rsync://ftp.openssl.org/openssl-ftp/ \ /home/ftp/pub/openssl/

Setup a mirror through FTP

1. Make sure you have the Mirror package (`mirror') installed on your system. If not, please grab the Mirror distribution first and install it. You can found Mirror on http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/ and ftp://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/. We recommend you to install version 2.9 or higher.

2. With the following command you now can check which packages are available through the FTP service from ftp.openssl.org:

   $ ftp ftp.openssl.org ftp> cd / ftp> ls -l

3. Now you have to decide to which local directory you want to mirror the OpenSSL distribution; say /home/ftp/pub/openssl/. Then you first setup a mirror configuration file (say /home/ftp/etc/openssl.mcf) as following:

   package=openssl site=ftp.openssl.org remote_dir=/ local_dir=/home/ftp/pub/openssl/ recursive=true

   Finally all you have to do is setup a Cron job which regularly runs the following command:

   $ mirror /home/ftp/etc/openssl.mcf

Final steps

• Additionally it would be very friendly when you just sent a message to openssl-team@openssl.org to inform the OpenSSL team about the new established mirror. Your mirror then can be added to the list of available mirror locations.

• When you re-export the stuff from your mirror PLEASE PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO ANY APPLICABLE EXPORT/IMPORT LAWS. The authors of OpenSSL are not liable for any violations you make here. So be carefully yourself.