Mirrors

The official mirrors of the FreeBSD project are made up of many machines operated by the project cluster administrators and behind GeoDNS to direct users to the closest available mirror.

Currently locations: Brazil, Japan (two sites), Malaysia, Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan (two sites), United Kingdom, United States of America (three sites, CA-NY-WA).

Official mirrors service:

Service Name Protocols More information

download.FreeBSD.org

http ftp

Same content as ftp.FreeBSD.org, ftp is a legacy name; we recommend using download.FreeBSD.org.

git.FreeBSD.org

git over http and ssh

More details on using git section.

pkg.FreeBSD.org

pkg(8) over http

Official FreeBSD package repositories used by the pkg(8) program.

All official mirrors support IPv4 and IPv6.

The FreeBSD website (www.FreeBSD.org and docs.FreeBSD.org) are not hosted in the GeoDNS Infrastructure; there are ongoing studies of its implementation.

ftp-archive.FreeBSD.org is not in the GeoDNS Infrastructure, hosted in only one location (US).

A phrase about the need for more servers in different locations? And to people getting in touch?

Mirror list maintained by community and other companies:

Country Hostname Protocols

Australia

ftp.au.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 rsync rsync_v6

ftp3.au.FreeBSD.org

http ftp rsync

Austria

ftp.at.FreeBSD.org

http ftp rsync

Brazil

ftp2.br.FreeBSD.org

http rsync rsync_v6

ftp3.br.FreeBSD.org

http ftp rsync

Bulgaria

ftp.bg.FreeBSD.org

ftp ftp_v6 rsync rsync_v6

Czech Republic

ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 rsync rsync_v6

Finland

ftp.fi.FreeBSD.org

ftp

France

ftp.fr.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6 rsync rsync_v6

ftp3.fr.FreeBSD.org

ftp

ftp6.fr.FreeBSD.org

http ftp rsync

Germany

ftp.de.FreeBSD.org

ftp ftp_v6 rsync rsync_v6

ftp1.de.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6 rsync rsync_v6

ftp2.de.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6 rsync rsync_v6

ftp5.de.FreeBSD.org

ftp ftp_v6

ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6

Greece

ftp.gr.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6

ftp2.gr.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6 rsync

Japan

ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6 rsync rsync_v6

ftp2.jp.FreeBSD.org

ftp rsync rsync_v6

ftp3.jp.FreeBSD.org

http rsync

ftp4.jp.FreeBSD.org

ftp

ftp6.jp.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6 rsync rsync_v6

Korea

ftp.kr.FreeBSD.org

http https ftp rsync

ftp2.kr.FreeBSD.org

rsync

Latvia

ftp.lv.FreeBSD.org

http ftp

Netherlands

ftp.nl.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6 rsync rsync_v6

ftp2.nl.FreeBSD.org

http ftp rsync

New Zealand

ftp.nz.FreeBSD.org

http ftp

Norway

ftp.no.FreeBSD.org

ftp ftp_v6 rsync rsync_v6

Poland

ftp.pl.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp rsync rsync_v6

United States of America

ftp11.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6 rsync rsync_v6

ftp14.FreeBSD.org

ftp rsync

ftp5.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6

Russia

ftp.ru.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6 rsync rsync_v6

ftp2.ru.FreeBSD.org

https ftp rsync

Slovenia

ftp.si.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6

South Africa

ftp.za.FreeBSD.org

https https_v6 rsync rsync_v6

ftp2.za.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp_v6

ftp4.za.FreeBSD.org

http ftp rsync

Sweden

ftp.se.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6 rsync rsync_v6

Taiwan

ftp4.tw.FreeBSD.org

https ftp rsync

ftp5.tw.FreeBSD.org

http ftp

Ukraine

ftp.ua.FreeBSD.org

http ftp ftp_v6 rsync rsync_v6

United Kingdom

ftp.uk.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 ftp ftp_v6 rsync rsync_v6

ftp2.uk.FreeBSD.org

http http_v6 https https_v6 ftp ftp_v6

The current list of protocols supported by the community mirrors was last updated on 2022-01-31, and it’s not guaranteed.