The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
GNU archive site GNU mirror site The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu. GNU Project FTP server (https://ftp.gnu.org/). (2014-12-04)