Recently NetBSD secured a very generous offering of Fastly CDN usage for NetBSD and pkgsrc. To take advantage of this I would like to propose the following patch (and if I'm missing any other places) which puts our CDN first.[1] Fastly is a very friendly CDN provider which does caching and has a worldwide distribution so, in theory, once the caches are hot things outside of CA should speed up a lot. https://www.fastly.com/network-map (yes, two POPs in japan and five in europe) Another good thing to try is to change pkgin/repositories.conf to use http://cdn.netbsd.org; SSL (https://) is supported, as well. Please let me know if you get a chance to try some of this stuff and if you (eventually) see any speedups. Also definitely let me know if you encounter 503 or other errors! Matt p.s. thanks to the netbsd developers who shared some of their pain with network transfer speeds, prompting this project. [1] --- mk/install/bin-install.mk-orig 2016-06-08 20:19:20.000000000 -0400 +++ mk/install/bin-install.mk 2016-06-08 20:20:00.000000000 -0400 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ # replaced with OS release ("1.5", ...) and architecture ("mipsel", ...) .if ${OPSYS} == "NetBSD" BINPKG_SITES?= \ - ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$${arch}/$${rel} + http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$${arch}/$${rel} .elif ${OPSYS} == "Minix" BINPKG_SITES?= \ ftp://ftp.minix3.org/pub/minix/packages/$$(${UNAME} -r)/$${arch} --- mk/fetch/sites.mk-orig 2016-06-08 20:17:52.000000000 -0400 +++ mk/fetch/sites.mk 2016-06-08 20:18:36.000000000 -0400 @@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ # The primary backup site. MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?= \ + http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/ \ ftp://ftp.fr.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/ \ http://ftp.fr.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/ \ ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/ \