2010/9/18 Stefan Erik Wilkens <stefanwilkens@gmail.com>:
2010/9/18 Guus Snijders <gsnijders@gmail.com>:
On 17-09-10 09:34, Stefan Erik Wilkens wrote:
Well then the situation is rather simple, isn't it.
If the amount of traffic a private local mirror generates for the official mirror is greater than the amount of traffic that any local clients (excluding any "other purposes" unrelated to the sync process of course) generate for this local mirror, then obviously something is very wrong. This should be fairly easy to determine and fairly easy to attack (sync less frequently, increase the amount of clients syncing from your local server or perhaps give up the local mirror completely).
Stefan, i think you'd better read the post you responded to. It looks like Nathan's "local" mirror is actually an official mirror...
If i understood correctly, he was just being curious what was supposed to be wrong with the mentioned script. ;)
I checked the current mirrorlist before replying, correct me if I'm wrong but I can't find any entry relating to the domain Nathan included in his mailing, nor is he listed as a tier1 on the developer's wiki. Maybe I've missed something painfully obvious here?
yes i think he is specifically asking what was _technically_ wrong with the aforementioned script from the wiki. which seems an appropriate question, given the circumstances of removal; if the only reason was to discourage the creation of local mirrors... well, to me at least, that seems a poor reason. i sympathize with some of the reasons for creating localized mirrors. in particular, when the mirror is located on a removable device it is especially useful... i did this to perform off-site installations, in addition to installing packages i needed when a connection wasn't available (ie. Nathan's train example) could a script be created that simply spreads the load to _all_ the official mirrors? the DB files could be pulled from archlinux.org, but the packages could be retrieved from all mirrors in parallel... or what is the core problem here? C Anthony