On 2/15/07, Joachim Frieben <jfrieben@xxxxxx> wrote:
Going for "Bittorrent" only for certain spins is a -very- bad idea. "Bittorrent" is blocked in certain academic and probably also enterprise environments.
I concur, this was actually a very real problem at my previous edu and gov addresses. I had enough pull with the it people and foresight to clear my usage of bittorrrent for the specific purpose of getting fedora, and got a specific ip address cleared to run a bt client, for a limited time period. But I'm sure everyone's pretty aware by now that i'm especially special, and it would be difficult to expect everyone to have such success poking holes in their academic/government/corporate firewalls for downloading fedora. If you do a bittorrent only iso, which proves to be very popular.. you may want a way for people who can't get the iso via bt to register a note so you can track how common the problem is, in proportion to the number of bt downloads. You may want to have a backup plan in place specifically to address the needs of people with local policy rules which limit the use of bt clients.. if its clear its a big enough problem and not just a couple of people. I think its a bigger problem then anyone realizes..but of course metrics are nigh impossible to obtain. -jef"Is there a potential here for some sort of bt to dynamic URL gateway?"spaleta -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
