Jim Perrin wrote:
Does this mean you don't wish to create a workable mirror system?
Just because it doesn't fit into how you think it should work doesn't
mean it's not workable. Stop trolling.
I'm not trolling, I pointed out a serious problem with it and suggest
how it could be improved.
I repeat, mirrors in Europe & the US are not local to Western Australia,
and while Singapore is relatively close, still data crosses national
boundaries; while I don't understand the implications of that, I am sure
it doesn't have the same costs & rules that data-flows within Austealia
have.
The fact that users get their data doesn't mean the mirror system is
working well from their perspectice.
I also made the point that speed measurements from users' machines don't
mean much in terms of the distance, or of the performance of the
download over time. Since I wrote, a download that I started this
morning at 100 KBytes/sec has since slowed to 12 Kbytes/sec or so.
I've just done a quick check, there is actually a Centos mirror here in
Perth: it's on WAIX, but you don't list it. it's even got 4.4 in it. Not
only, but including:
lftp ftp.iinet.net.au:/pub/centos/4.4> dir os/s390x/
---> PASV
<--- 227 Entering Passive Mode (203,59,27,132,191,167).
---- Connecting data socket to (203.59.27.132) port 49063
---> LIST os/s390x/
<--- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
---- Closing data socket
drwxr-xr-x 4 0 root 4096 Mar 26 10:46 CentOS
<--- 226-Transfer complete.
<--- 226 Quotas off
-rw-r--r-- 2 0 root 18009 Jul 7 2005 GPL
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 192 Mar 24 17:52 RELEASE-NOTES
-rw-r--r-- 4 0 root 1795 Jul 7 2005 RPM-GPG-KEY
-rw-r--r-- 4 0 root 1795 Jul 7 2005 RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 root 4096 Oct 8 2005 SRPMS
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 112 Mar 24 21:15 generic.ins
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 root 61440 May 8 17:24 headers
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 root 4096 Mar 26 10:46 images
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 root 4096 Mar 26 10:46 repodata
-rw-r--r-- 2 0 root 537152 Mar 24 17:07 yumgroups.xml
lftp ftp.iinet.net.au:/pub/centos/4.4>
I think it's also accessible by rsync (I've been getting some Debian
from there by rsync) and http.
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Cheers
John
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