Re: [Fwd: ftp probs]

[Jim Kingdon <kingdon@panix.com>]

> Are there any plans to solve this?  When I go to test that the packages
> really are downloadable, I can never get on either... -s

People need to use mirrors (I'm trying to get sourceforge signed up as
a mirror but it might need to wait a few weeks until I'm working there
- I tried to send email, didn't get a response, and haven't pressed
the point).

As for mirrors being out of date, does the cygwin mirror polling
script test for up-to-date-ness?  Someone(TM) should look into what it
would take to use that script site-wide (to test for mirrors being up
even if it can't deal with staleness).

> I get a maximum download speed of about 500 bytes/sec, 
> with the connection dropping for minutes at a time.

I've been noticing this too (slow times from traceroute and web too).
It probably means that we need to restrict the number of anonymous FTP
users even further, although I haven't looked at the statistics lately.

The underlying issue, of course, is that sourceware's T1 is maxxed out
(see graphs and numbers at
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/sourceware/net.html ).

As I've said before (in some contexts in a half-joking manner), I
suspect VA might be willing to help somehow (with the sourceforge
mirror being the simplest way - I've already discussed that part with
them).  People who are planning to stay at Red Hat beyond 1 Jul will
need to think about what kinds of offers of help would be acceptable
to Red Hat, and what other solutions are possible.

I think I asked whether Apple had any interest in setting up a mirror.
Not justified based on xconq, I'm sad to say, but for GCC and
what-not.  Maybe that particular one isn't a good idea, but if
sourceware is really going to be a collaboration between various
companies, we need to figure out how to make that happen in a
financial sense.

I don't know, maybe just asking the right person (sysadmin? Kim?) in
Red Hat (with a case about how Red Hat customers rely on the site) is
all it would take.  But the nice thing about leaving is that I get to
seek another sucker for duties like that one :-).