Re: [Fwd: ftp probs]

[Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 01:29:23AM -0400, Jim Kingdon wrote:
>> 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As for mirrors being out of date, does the cygwin mirror polling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).

Yes, I believe so.  DJ is refining this all of the time.  I've cc'ed him.

>> 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 ).

Ah.  Thanks.  I couldn't remember that URL.

It looks like cygwin is taking up quite a bit of the bandwidth.  I
wonder if there is a rogue mirror site out there.

We changed the layout of one of the download directories a couple
of months ago and changed one thing from a symbolic link to an
actual directory.  That screwed up a couple of mirrors.  I wonder
if they are now just repeatedly downloading the 'latest' directory.

Can we get any more detail about what is being downloaded and by whom?

>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.

A sourceforge mirror would be cool.  As long as they don't ask us
to reciprocate.  :-)

cgf