On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

[ snip intersting HTTP proxy discussion ]

 : Well, since all the web traffic is going through a single machine and not
 : a high speed router you will see that machine saturate if their usage is
 : too great - note it only effect HTTP on port 80.

So if a mirror was serving up HTTP on a port other than 80 this problem
might go away?  I'm willing to twiddle debian.midco.net to provide
service to another port ... (easynews.com does this and uses port 81
FYI)

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