Re: Re: Debian ISOs

2007-02-21 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Hendrik makes me think that ktorrent would be another good idea. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-09-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 29, Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony's point stays valid when bandwidth is limited on the > server. Which is not the case for Debian mirrors except possibly in the few hours after a major release. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-09-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 29, Francois Petillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, as far as I am concerned, disk IO is the greatest problem (disk > capacity & bandwidth is increasing faster than seek time). Thus, we try > to optimize disk IO to get max performance out of that kind of server. > And optimization usual

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-09-29 Thread Sylvain Beucler
> From: "Anthony L. Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Metalinks, a cross platform vendor neutral fortmat, are used by > >download managers & contain Mirror & p2p locations for segmented > >downloads, along with automatic checksum verification when the > >download completes. It spreads the download betw

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-09-29 Thread Francois Petillon
[sry, I am coming late and I am breaking all references as I did not received this thread. Worse, I am answering to different mails at once ;-) I also apologize to debian-cd subscribers as I already sent this answer there before realizing the initial thread was posted here too. As there was no

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-09-22 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 9/22/06, Anthony L. Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (Oops, hit the send key combo before finishing, sorry). Here's a brief refresher on metalinks & how it could be useful for Debian ISO distribution: 'Metalink makes complex download pages obsolete by replacing long lists of download mirrors

RE: Debian ISOs

2006-09-22 Thread Anthony L. Bryan
(Oops, hit the send key combo before finishing, sorry). Here's a brief refresher on metalinks & how it could be useful for Debian ISO distribution: 'Metalink makes complex download pages obsolete by replacing long lists of download mirrors and BitTorrent trackers with a single .metalink file. As

RE: Debian ISOs

2006-09-22 Thread Anthony L. Bryan
Here's a brief refresher on metalinks & how it could be useful for Debian ISO distribution: aria2 is in unstable and testing so people can install & use it easily, thanks to Patrick. I hope some people can try it out! apt-get install aria2 aria2c http://www.metalinker.org/samples/debian-31r2-i

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-09-09 Thread Patrick Ruckstuhl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, >>> One thing I'd definitely like to do is get aria2 >>> (http://aria2.sourceforge.net/) included in Debian. >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/08/msg00197.html >> >> I'm not sure why it hasn't appeared in Unstable yet. [but it >> look

RE: Debian ISOs

2006-09-01 Thread Anthony L. Bryan
> which indicates that a Metalink file for Debian could be over 150k; > (for CDs) x 12 (11 arches and source) x (>)15 images per release. > Giving ~9M of HDD overhead if each download needed its own Metalink > file, <2M for one Metalink file per release, with reality > somewhere in > between. >

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-31 Thread Bruce Sass
Hello Anthony, Thanks for the response. On Thu August 31 2006 12:17, you wrote: > Hi Bruce, just wanted to say thanks for investigating Metalink. These > are all valid concerns. For the last few months, the only big user of > Metalinks has been OpenOffice.org, and I haven't heard any complaints >

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-31 Thread Patrick Ruckstuhl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > One thing I'd definitely like to do is get aria2 > (http://aria2.sourceforge.net/) included in Debian. It's a BitTorrent and > Metalink command line client. Maybe recommending certain clients over > another and working with the authors of those

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-31 Thread Anthony L. Bryan
On Thu August 31 2006 00:27, Subredu Manuel wrote: >> Bruce Sass wrote: >> When a new release is made, all servers (and mirrors) are getting >> hit. First, the tier 1 (ftp..debian.org), and then the other >> mirrors. > >Would each mirror or region need a unique metalink file to ensure that >happe

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-31 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu August 31 2006 00:27, Subredu Manuel wrote: > Bruce Sass wrote: > > It is also not clear what will happen when a release is made and > > hundreds (thousands?) of clients hit the fastest mirror, whose > > download rate then drops, prompting all the clients to try > > switching to the new fast

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-30 Thread Subredu Manuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruce Sass wrote: > > You seem to be ignoring that metalinker will use multiple protocols, > servers, and connections in an effort to get the fastest download. > http://www.metalinker.org/Metalink_3.0_Spec.pdf also indicates it will > switch serv

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-30 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed August 30 2006 02:52, Subredu Manuel wrote: > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le jeudi 17 août 2006 à 11:48 -0400, Anthony L. Bryan a écrit : > > > > Given that downloads like Debian ISOs are already putting a heavy > > bandwidth load on the servers and that they are already shared > > among man

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-30 Thread Subredu Manuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 17 août 2006 à 11:48 -0400, Anthony L. Bryan a écrit : > > Given that downloads like Debian ISOs are already putting a heavy > bandwidth load on the servers and that they are already shared among > many servers, I

RE: Debian ISOs

2006-08-27 Thread Anthony L. Bryan
> Le jeudi 17 août 2006 à 11:48 -0400, Anthony L. Bryan a écrit : > > Metalinks might be helpful on Debian's download page for > CD/DVD images. You > > could have a single quick link to your ISOs that contains all the > > mirror/p2p/checksum info in it. > > > > Metalinks, a cross platform vendor

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Remi Denis-Courmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060825 15:10]: > > Blocking incoming connections is a common and good starting points for > > every firewall setup. > > This is only meaningful if there are any open ports by default. Quite many > Linux distributions have all ports closed by *default* aft

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-25 Thread Remi Denis-Courmont
Selon "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > They don't work well if there's NAT[1] involved, you wanted to say. > Blocking incoming connections is a common and good starting points for > every firewall setup. This is only meaningful if there are any open ports by default. Quite many Linux d

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Adam Borowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060824 01:46]: > > This is a bit of a red herring. Torrents work without re-configuring > > firewalls, they just don't work as well. > > They don't work well if there's NAT[1] involved, you wanted to say. Blocking incoming connections is a common and good sta

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-23 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:38:59 +0700, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "http and ftp will always work" is a really good point... someone > mentioned `corporate filtering,' I think bandwidth limiting by ISPs > would be a bigger problem. Shouldn't be a deal killer though, just > don't use bitto

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:34:34PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Wed August 23 2006 12:32, Blars Blarson wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >When a nice bittorrent frontend is installed, the user will only > > > have to click on the link to start the downloa

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-23 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed August 23 2006 12:32, Blars Blarson wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >When a nice bittorrent frontend is installed, the user will only > > have to click on the link to start the download. This is true for > > Windows and Linux. > > You left out the reco

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-23 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >When a nice bittorrent frontend is installed, the user will only have to >click on the link to start the download. This is true for Windows and >Linux. You left out the reconfigure the firewall(s) step. Not only is this non-trivial, the u

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-23 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed August 23 2006 05:30, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Mittwoch 23 August 2006 12:41 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > > Le mercredi 23 août 2006 à 11:30 +0200, Christian Perrier a écrit : > > > I have a few doubts about the knowledge of the average user for > > > Bittorrent. For sure, having BitTorren

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-23 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Mittwoch 23 August 2006 12:41 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > Le mercredi 23 août 2006 à 11:30 +0200, Christian Perrier a écrit : > > I have a few doubts about the knowledge of the average user for > > Bittorrent. For sure, having BitTorrent helps reducing the load > > because all users that have so

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-23 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > When a nice bittorrent frontend is installed, the user will only have to > click on the link to start the download. This is true for Windows and > Linux. I don't doubt it..:-) But I doubt that many users have a nice Bittorrent frontend and, what I

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 23 août 2006 à 11:30 +0200, Christian Perrier a écrit : > I have a few doubts about the knowledge of the average user for > Bittorrent. For sure, having BitTorrent helps reducing the load > because all users that have some know-how with it will use it...but > making it the main distribu

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-23 Thread Christian Perrier
> Many users do not know what an ISO image is, either. If someone creates My knowledge of the average user (one of the few things I claim to have quite big experience of) is that they do. Especially, the "Bob User" who's the D-I team favourite user (the user that's not a complete nerd with comput

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-23 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:30:53AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > I have a few doubts about the knowledge of the average user for > Bittorrent. For sure, having BitTorrent helps reducing the load > because all users that have some know-how with it will use it...but > making it the main distribu

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-23 Thread Christian Perrier
> several servers at once with one download. We should instead push > bittorrent as the main distribution media for ISOs. I have a few doubts about the knowledge of the average user for Bittorrent. For sure, having BitTorrent helps reducing the load because all users that have some know-how with

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-23 Thread Mgr. Peter Tuharsky
> First of all, please use a MUA that doesn't break threads. I'm using Thunderbird and don't intend to switch. > Bittorrent is by far the most efficient protocol when it comes to large > file distribution. OK Josselin Mouette wrote / napísal(a): First of all, please use a MUA that doesn't br

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
First of all, please use a MUA that doesn't break threads. Le mercredi 23 août 2006 à 08:10 +0200, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky a écrit : > If that's intended, then it needs to be done in such a way that even > low-to-moderately-skilled user can set it up with ease. > > I know it's silly to even mention

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-22 Thread Mgr. Peter Tuharsky
If that's intended, then it needs to be done in such a way that even low-to-moderately-skilled user can set it up with ease. I know it's silly to even mention that, but unfortunatelly, user friendliness and good documentation (good for users, not only for developers!) are still, ehm, not a mat

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-22 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue August 22 2006 13:04, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Given that downloads like Debian ISOs are already putting a heavy > bandwidth load on the servers and that they are already shared among > many servers, I don't think it is a good idea to encourage users to > load several servers at once with o

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 17 août 2006 à 11:48 -0400, Anthony L. Bryan a écrit : > Hi, > > Metalinks might be helpful on Debian's download page for CD/DVD images. You > could have a single quick link to your ISOs that contains all the > mirror/p2p/checksum info in it. > > Metalinks, a cross platform vendor neutra