Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:41:44 -0700 (PDT) | | From | John Caldwell <> | | Subject | Re: ftp.kernel.org full of lamers not using mirrors. |
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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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