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Re: [PLUG] Local Mirrors?
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On 16-Apr-2003, "Kevin Brosius" <kbrosius@kns.com> wrote:
>Sergey Ostrovsky wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kevin Brosius" <kbrosius@kns.com>
>>
>>> JP Toto wrote:
[...]
>>>> 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.
[...]
>>>
>>> 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.
[...]
>> 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.
[...]
> 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.
I grabbed the RH9 ISOs via BitTorrent running on a gentoo system. It
worked very smoothly, was at least as fast as downloading directly from
ftp, and didn't have the inconvenience of polling to get a connection
into a busy server.
While BitTorrent is good for the big honking files (i.e., ISOs), I don't
think it's designed for granularly downloading lots of smaller files.
It's not going to help speed up apt-getting or gentoo downloads.
Cheers,
Paul
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