Gentoo Archives: gentoo-admin

From: Colin Morey <peitolm@g.o>
To: Edward TLS <Edward.TLS@×××××××.NL>
Cc: admin@g.o
Subject: Re: [Gentoo-admin] how can i set up an FTP mirror >
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 02:45:26
Message-Id: 1033457681.4130.8.camel@koch.random-chaos.org.uk
1 On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 06:28, Edward Tjin Liep Shie wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > The mirror is online for more then 1 week and still no one is using it..
5 >
6 > I was wondering if the link on the gentoo site is broken or not there..
7 > If the Tiscali mirror is not needed plz.. let me know then ill remove the files..
8 > If the mirror is not goog also let me know..
9 >
10 the reason you've not seen any traffic will due to myself being on
11 holiday week before last, and moving house last week, please bare with
12 me and i'll try and get this organised as soon as i can.
13
14 Thanks Once again for your support.
15
16 Colin Morey
17 > Gr,
18 >
19 > Edward TLS
20 >
21 > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:17:07AM +0100, Colin Morey wrote:
22 > > On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 08:31, Edward Tjin Liep Shie wrote:
23 > > > Hi,
24 > > HIyas, sorry for the delay in getting back to you,
25 > >
26 > > > On your website i c that u have some mirrors
27 > > > There was no Mirror in The Netherlands..
28 > > > Tiscali NL /DEV departmant is using gentoo on there workstations and they asked me if i can ask u if we can set up an mirror in the Nethelands
29 > > >
30 > > > We have a fast ftp mirror ( ftp.tiscali.nl connected @ 100 Mbit and Tiscali NL is connected at the AMS-IX 3x 1000Mbit ) running on a Ultra Sparc 380 Gb
31 > > >
32 > > > If u can let me know how big the mirror is and if we can make a mirror in The Netherlands...
33 > > >
34 > > At the moment i don't have the size of the mirror at my fingertips :),
35 > > the main distribution site is ibiblio(metalab.unc.edu), and can be found
36 > > at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/
37 > >
38 > > > I want to uce rsync to make the mirror..
39 > > I don't know if ibiblio is available over rsync, but most ftp clients
40 > > can intelligently handle mirroring.
41 > >
42 > >
43 > > If you'd like to make the mirror public, can you send the following
44 > > details to admin@g.o,
45 > >
46 > > Servers canocial name,
47 > > Servers Main Ip address,
48 > > When you mirror,
49 > > where you mirror from,
50 > > Contact details,
51 > > hours of contact.
52 > >
53 > >
54 > > thanks,
55 > > Colin Morey,
56 > > AkA Peitolm@g.o,
57 > >
58 > >
59 >
60 > --
61 > With kind regards,
62 >
63 >
64 > Edward Tjin Liep Shie <__> Unix SysAdmin <__> <Edward.TLS@×××××××.NL>
65 > Tiscali Benelux, Office: +31-30-248-3500 Cell: +31-6-53949063
66 > URL: http://www.tiscali.nl/