Matthew D. Pitts
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> From: John Caldwell <jcald@lake.ml.org>
> To: Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: ftp.kernel.org full of lamers not using mirrors.
> Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 2:41 PM
>
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Dominik Kubla wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > As one of the many lamers who's slowly overloading kernel.org, is
there a
> > > list of mirrors anyplace? Might be one of the reasons lots of people
use
> > > ftp.kernel.org.
> >
> > May i suggest to use your webbrowser to fetch the kernel via http:
> >
> > http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.1/
> >
> > This works even when anonftp is locked out because of the user limit
> > and we can use the global webcache structure to distribute the
kernel...
> >
> > Dominik
>
> if your FTP is full, i would assume that most of the bandwidth is gone at
> this point... how much does http help if the pipe (t1?) is already full?
> I share tom's sentiments, and I have a fairly fast (500kbps) connection,
> but kernel.org can hardly ever provide me with download speeds above
> 20kb/sec, most times not above 15 (I can get around 40kb/sec from fast
> mirrors.) I scoured kernel.org for a long time trying to find ANY sort of
> list of people who might mirror the site. Eventually I just gave up and
> waited for ftpsearch.ntnu.no to find someone who had a copy of the
kernel.
> Even though theres not a solid mirroring structure out there yet- do you
> have any sort of idea of some sites that keep a fairly curent mirror?
>
>
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