Why not a proxy server? A (very well) workable model exists in Debian (apt-proxy package). Supports simultaneous requests; works with rsync, ftp, http servers, ...
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 19:10, Saurabh Nanda wrote: > Hi, > We've been trying to come up with a solution for deploying a distfile mirror > for our university intranet. > > There are a decent number of Gentoo users here, and it is a waste of bandwidth > with people downloading the same packages off the internet. > > * So, we set up a central FTP server with certain popular distfiles. > * We also started maintaining a list of all Gentoo users within the campus who > were putting up *their distfiles* for FTP. So that people could add those > servers to GENTOO_MIRRORS in their make.conf's > > This is not exactly the most viable solution, because: > * It's difficult keeping track of Gentoo users with FTP servers on their > machines. > * Say, a certain distfile is on X's machine, but not on the central FTP > server, and X has switched off his machine - the person who needs the > distfile will have to download it off the net - even though the file is > available in the LAN. > > * Could /usr/portage/distfiles be mounted as a SMB share, an NFS mount point, > an AFS mount-point? > * We would also be using a P2P service in the campus shorty. Could portage > pick off files from the P2P network? > * Has anyone tried this? What was your experience? > > TIA, > Nandz. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
