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On Tuesday 09 June 2009 15:48:26 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Definitely. |
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> > I have to beat users over the head (metaphorically) with a stick to get |
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> > them to use my mirror. They somehow have the idea that SRC_URI has better |
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> > quality bits than my ftp server... |
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> > By going to SRC_URI every time, they use up precious international |
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> > bandwidth instead of local (of which there is heaps). Every six months, |
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> > when Fedora or Ubuntu does a release, those users can saturate the entire |
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> > pipe into this *country* - just to get isos that I already have publicly |
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> > available and am begging them to use. |
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> my university has a nice volume cap for all students. But everything |
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> downloaded from its own network - including the ftp servers is 'free' - |
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> only outside traffic counts. |
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> Luckily, my university hosts a major gentoo mirror. Not rsync, but |
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> distfiles. They also have ubuntu, suse, fedora stuff. Windows updates.. and |
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> still people don't use it. Annoying. |
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I'm six hours behind every mirror I sync - all major distros, every free BSD I |
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can find and every major project out there; the only thing that lags is Ubuntu |
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and Fedora at release time. And give it away at local prices over ftp, http, |
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rsync |
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Why? The company has 2000 employees. The international bandwidth bill is |
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larger than the salary bill - including bonuses, expense claims, subsidies... |
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So management is very very happy that I have a way to reduce that, and rather |
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unhappy that users don't use it more |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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