Re: [PLUG] Local Mirrors?

[Kevin Brosius <kbrosius@kns.com>]

Sergey Ostrovsky wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Brosius" <kbrosius@kns.com>
> To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 1:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Local Mirrors?
> 
> > JP Toto wrote:
> > >
> > > Michael C. Toren wrote:
> > > >>- If there are significant costs... would folks be willing to pony up
> a
> > > >>small membership fee annually to offset the cost of having their own
> > > >>local mirror to use for rsyncing, apt-updating, and ISO downloading?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > There could easily be significant costs, but it's difficult to
> quantify
> > > > without estimating how much traffic the mirror would generate, which
> is
> > > > also difficult to do.  My biggest question, though, is what would be
> the
> > > > advantages over using a freely available public mirror that exists
> today?
> > > > Is there a shortage of gentoo mirrors?
> > >
> > > There isn't really a shortage that I can see... but the gentoo mirrors
> > > are strained a little. I can't speak for other distros but I imagine
> > > some of the debian mirrors might get bogged down a little. The advantage
> > > to having a local plug mirror would be for plugers to use for rsyncing,
> > > apt-getting, and iso downloading. I just thought I would gauge interest.
> > > If the costs would outweigh the benefits then I can understand.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > -mct
> >
> > Anybody tried out BitTorrent?  Maybe the people who have full time
> > connections could pool together to sponsor some additional BitTorrent
> > bandwidth.  This alleviates the purchasing bandwidth issue, but doesn't
> > guarantee any level of service either.
> >
> > --
> > Kevin Brosius
> 
> I tried to get RH 9 using BitTorrent from a box running Win 98.
> The box would freeze every time when 40% of download complete.
> I've read that people running BitTorrent on a Linux box were more
> successful, though.
> Sergey Ostrovsky.
> 

So that's two votes for bad results...  I was going to setup for RH9
iso's with BitTorrent, but never got around to opening up the extra
firewall ports.

(Hi Sergey :))
-- 
Kevin Brosius
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