Messages in this thread | | | From | "Matthew D. Pitts" <> | Subject | Re: ftp.kernel.org full of lamers not using mirrors. | Date | Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:24:06 -0400 |
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Folks, Try ftp.uk.linux.org in pub/linux/kernel-21/. It's where I go most of the time, and it's usually up-to-date.
Matthew D. Pitts ---------- > 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? > > > > -- > ------------------------- > | John Caldwell > | jcald@lake.ml.org > | http://www.lake.ml.org/ > ------------------------- > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html
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