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From: Martin Eisenhardt <martin.eisenhardt@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] Gentoo Linux 2007.0 and BitTorrent
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 06:58:47
Message-Id: 200705040858.15385.martin.eisenhardt@mneisen.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-mirrors] Gentoo Linux 2007.0 and BitTorrent by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 Hello Robin,
2 hello list,
3
4 On Friday 04 May 2007 03:44:06 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
5 > BitTorrent-only:
6 > 3.7G livedvd-amd64-installer-2007.0/
7 > 3.8G livedvd-i686-installer-2007.0/
8 >
9 > If you're interested in direct BitTorrent seeding (esp. for the above
10 > two, even if you aren't seeding anything else), please give me a shout
11 > so that I can arrange to get them to you.
12
13 Shout. :-D
14
15 I am interested in seeding the new DVD images, although not at the 50 Mbps you
16 mentioned in your posting. But a few Mbps might help as well, I guess ...
17
18 > For part two of the HTTP-seeding (eg making the BT clients actually use
19 > the mirrors), I'd like to know which of the experimental mirrors are
20 > interested in being used for HTTP seeding.
21 >
22 > Your webservers will need to support HTTP Range requests for this to
23 > work. The BitTorrent clients will send range requests for 32K..256K
24 > blocks (powers of two only).
25
26 Assuming that a vanilla Apache 2.0 supports range requests (which it does,
27 AFAIK), I would like to volunteer for that as well.
28
29 Just contact me with the details about how to get the files and what
30 information you need.
31
32 Kind regards
33 Martin Eisenhardt
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