On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:34:05PM -0500, Brent wrote: > I think one really great way to help with this problem is if there was a > way to have the mirrors run torrent seeds too. If that were to happen > then the local network mirrors thing would pretty much automagically > work itself out. If the people in the LAN know about the FTP/HTTP > mirror they use it, if they don't most of the good Bittorrent software > tries hard to find local nodes to connect to. So torrent users would > still get it using the LAN _mostly_ and the mirrors would also be > helping to seed the torrents during the slow beginning part. There seems to be a feature in bittorrent which does exactly this. I have heard the gentoo is experimenting with it: http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/experimental/bittorrent-http-seeding/READ-ME-FIRST.txt No idea if it actually works. Adrian -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
