On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:54:30PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 02/10/2013 20:48, Bruce Hill wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 05:45:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > >> Then you can all use mine with the greatest of pleasure: > >> > >> SYNC="rsync://ftp.is.co.za/gentoo-portage" > >> > >> > >> I have the NetOps team BEGGING me weekly to try and generate more > >> traffic out of our network going international. The in-out ratio on the > >> peering links is seriously screwed and they badly want something to even > >> it out a bit :-) > > > > Just for giggles I tried it too, from the US. Slower than turtles mating. ;) > > > > > Give the poor thing a break - it's not dedicated to Gentoo :-) > > There's about 11TB of mirrors on that host = full copies of every major > distro, most of the popular middle teir ones and full copies of all 3 BSDs > > The general public keep it busy - I blame them :-)
I didn't mean anything disrespectful (notice my winky), just that from the US it's rather slow. But it's still listed, commented, in make.conf. Thanks, Alan! -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting