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Re: [PLUG] Local Mirrors?
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I also used BitTorrent to download Mandrake 9.1 without much success. After
the VERY FAST acquisition of the ISO images, I checked the files against the
MD5 checksum and two of the three disks failed.
Stratos
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Brosius" <kbrosius@kns.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 08:59
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Local Mirrors?
> 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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