Hi, On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:09:05AM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi. I am not sure if anybody answered your mail yet, so I just go > ahead.
Your mail is the first reply - thanks for that! > This wiki entry just contains a few "unofficial" mirrors. The official > source for such information is https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/ These > lists are automatically generated. I see. Confusing, nevertheless :) > Tier 1 mirrors sync hourly. So it does not make much sense to sync more > often than your upstream mirror. However, you might reduce the delay if > you have try to sync eight after your tier 1 mirror has finished. E.g. > if you upstream still is https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/uk2.net/ you > might sync a few minutes after **:30 every hour. OK. > Also note that we setup this multi tier scheme to reduce traffic on our > main server which has a bandwidth limit of 12 MBit and also has to serve > the website, email and bug tracker. So we have to be careful about how > many mirrors sync how often. I see the problem, but do not really understand how that relates to my question. > I didn't look into details of this. This might give us more control > about when which mirrors sync from us. However, this might not work well > with our multi tier setup. E.g. we could notify our tier 1 mirror about > changes, but it would be up to them to notify their tier 2 mirrors. > (none of the tier 1 mirrors that serves as tier 2 upstream is controlled > by us) You can learn a lot for Debian here, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. > I hope this clarifies a few things. If not don't hesitate to ask me. Yes, it does. Thanks! Bye, -- Carsten Otto [email protected] LuFG Informatik 2 http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/ RWTH Aachen phone: +49 241 80-21211
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