[arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

Guus Snijders gsnijders at gmail.com
Sat Sep 18 13:37:27 EDT 2010


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. ;)


mvg,
    Guus



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