diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml
index fbdb8bdd4e..c9581b544f 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml
@@ -506,11 +506,9 @@ Comment out for now until these can be verified.
 	<literal>ports</literal> for the Ports Collection, and
 	<literal>doc</literal> for documentation.  For example, the
 	URL
-	<literal>svn://svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org/ports/head/</literal>
-	specifies the main branch of the ports repository on the
-	<systemitem
-	  class="fqdomainname">svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org</systemitem>
-	mirror, using the <literal>svn</literal> protocol.</para>
+	<literal>https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/head/</literal>
+	specifies the main branch of the ports repository,
+	using the <literal>https</literal> protocol.</para>
 
       <para>A checkout from a given repository is performed with a
 	command like this:</para>
@@ -570,7 +568,7 @@ Comment out for now until these can be verified.
 	present but was not created by <command>svn</command>,
 	remember to rename or delete it before the checkout.</para>
 
-      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>svn checkout <replaceable>https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org</replaceable>/ports/head /usr/ports</userinput></screen>
+      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>svn checkout <replaceable>https://svn.FreeBSD.org</replaceable>/ports/head /usr/ports</userinput></screen>
 
       <para>Because the initial checkout has to download the full
 	branch of the remote repository, it can take a while.  Please
@@ -612,13 +610,11 @@ Comment out for now until these can be verified.
 	<secondary>Mirror Sites</secondary>
       </indexterm>
 
-      <para>All mirrors carry all repositories.</para>
-
-      <para>The master &os; <application>Subversion</application>
-	server, <systemitem
+      <para>The &os; <application>Subversion</application>
+	repository, <systemitem
 	  class="fqdomainname">svn.FreeBSD.org</systemitem>, is
-	publicly accessible, and redirects to the closest official
-	mirror using GeoDNS.  To view the &os;
+	a publicly accessible mirror network that uses GeoDNS to
+	select an appropriate back end server.  To view the &os;
 	<application>Subversion</application> repositories through a
 	browser, use <link
 	  xlink:href="http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/">http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/</link>.</para>