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

Stefan Erik Wilkens stefanwilkens at gmail.com
Sat Sep 18 14:17:11 EDT 2010


2010/9/18 Guus Snijders <gsnijders at 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. ;)
>
>
> mvg,
>   Guus
>
>

Guus,

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?

-Stefan


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