From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Kingdon To: shebs@shebs.cnchost.com Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [Fwd: ftp probs] Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:29:00 -0000 Message-ID: <200006210529.BAA13670@panix3.panix.com> References: <39504F15.461AA569@shebs.cnchost.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00358.html Message-ID: <20000620222900.pLy7lXwetdexk5zdy0GhPV9W1d8M6C6aR8fumsd2Jj0@z> > 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 As for mirrors being out of date, does the cygwin mirror polling script test for up-to-date-ness?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 :-).