[arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

Tue Feb 9 12:44:08 EST 2010

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder if something like http://www.coralcdn.org/ could be used for
> a package repository.

Nope. The CoralCDN is intended to be used as a distributed web cache.
It doesn't even serve large files, it redirects you to the original
source:

% wget http://ftp.archlinux.org.nyud.net/iso/latest/archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-x86_64.iso
--2010-02-09 19:39:51--
http://ftp.archlinux.org.nyud.net/iso/latest/archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-x86_64.iso
Resolving ftp.archlinux.org.nyud.net... 150.189.2.102, 141.161.20.32,
141.213.4.201
Connecting to ftp.archlinux.org.nyud.net|150.189.2.102|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302
Location: http://ftp.archlinux.org/iso/latest/archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-x86_64.iso?coral-no-serve
[following]
--2010-02-09 19:39:58--
http://ftp.archlinux.org/iso/latest/archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-x86_64.iso?coral-no-serve
Resolving ftp.archlinux.org... 209.85.41.143, 209.85.41.144
[...]

Regards,
Marti