Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Dec 26 2006 - 11:50:32 EST


Russell King wrote:

Ergo, downloads via http from ftp.uk.kernel.org are at best unreliable
for multiple requests.

I agree that it's not directly your problem, and isn't something you
have direct control over. However, if you want to round-robin the
<cc>.kernel.org IP addresses between different providers, I suggest
that either the name resolves to just one site, or that kernel.org
adopts a policy with their mirrors that they only become part of
the <cc>.kernel.org DNS entries as long as they do not rewrite their
site-specific URLs in terms of that address.


Indeed. I just sent a complaint about this, and if we can figure out a decent way to test for this automatically we'll add it to our automatic tests.

There is also always ftp.

-hpa
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