Re: [PLUG] Local Mirrors?

[JP Toto <viceclown@yahoo.com>]

Isn't BitTorrent fairly new and only recently released? It might have a 
little way to go before it's stable enough to use regularly. They kinda 
opened w/ a big splash w/ Red Hat iso's but since then I've heard it's 
not he most reliable system yet.

Kevin Brosius wrote:
> 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 :))

--

JP Toto
ViceClown@yahoo.com

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