More radical suggestion (not only to Shlomi Fish but also to the
sysadmins of all mirrors in Israel):
Start setting up a system of redundant mirrors in Israel, with the aim
of having two mirrors for every popular stuff (I believe that CPAN and
Mandrake would qualify as popular from the following list).
They should be coordinated in such a way that stuff would be downloaded
from abroad only once. Yet, any of the two mirrors should be able to
download stuff if the other mirror fails to update itself promptly
enough.
--- Omer
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 11:08 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Well, I talked with Amir Plivatsky. He confirmed that indeed eskimo had a low
> outgoing bandwidth, and promised he would fix this problem. Another thing he
> asked us to do is to make sure we don't mirror any resource that is mirrored
> elsewhere in Israel. (so we won't overload the origin servers)
>
> This means we'll have to get rid of:
>
> 1. CPAN - already mirrored in the Weizmann Institute and in Mirimar.
>
> 2. LDP - already mirrored in penguin.org.il.
>
> 3. kernel.org - already mirrored in mirror.israel.net.
>
> 4. Mandrake - already mirrored in hamakor.org.il
>
> What can we mirror instead? (that isn't already mirrored in Israel)
>
> Some ideas:
>
> 1. A Full KDE Mirror.
>
> 2. An ftp.gnome.org mirror.
>
> 3. Various LiveCDs.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shlomi Fish
>
>
> On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:23, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > It seems the eskimo mirroring process fails due to low bandwidth. (still).
> > It seems like a problem with the server configuration on Actcom, because
> > home users are not having such a problem. I already received several
> > notices for the mirrors not being up-to-date.
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