On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:19:35AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I'd like a few notes to be added to the debian mirrors/CD pages: > > - users should favour HTTP over FTP, because this is less stressful for > the servers
Does it really make a difference when downloading full CD images? I thought it only does with jigdo, because the overhead with FTP is the login, which only happens once per downloaded file. > - if an user plans to use jigdo to make an image with the packages from > only one server, he should first check if pre-built CD images are > available from that server I think I'll solve this by changing the list of servers distributed with the next version of jigdo: If a site offers both HTTP and FTP, only the HTTP link is listed. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯
