I also run a public security mirror for myself and everybody interested. I'm interested to know if there is a push mechanism like it is with the ftp.d.o's mirrors. It will be really usefull, cause now I sometimes run it additionally to the cronjob.
Best regards, Boyan Krosnov, CCIE#8701 http://boyan.ludost.net/ Just another techie speaking for himself > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Renfro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 11:50 PM > To: David U. > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Debian Security Mirror > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:39:09PM -0500, David U. wrote: > > > I find that security.debian.org gets "slow" sometimes and it'd be > > nice if there were a couple mirrors like the other debian archives. > > If you have sufficient bandwidth somewhere to host a mirror, and the > main problem you experience with security.debian.org is excessive > variation in performance, you could run a nightly mirror job. That's > what I did here when we had 2 T1s of connectivity for a few thousand > students, faculty, staff, etc. > > I'm not sure if I actually saved bandwidth in the long run (I mirrored > the whole tree, regardless of architecture, and I've never installed > many of the packages on s.d.o to begin with) -- but at least I'd be > able to point other Debian people here to our local mirror so that > they could update themselves more quickly. > > -- > Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, > 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
