> Currently each mirror contributes around 100GB of traffic monthly > > Perhaps (not sure of the DNS system in place) could be arranged so that 10% > of the requests a full primary mirror receives could be directed to a > secondary level mirror. With a committment of only roughly 10GB per month, > we'd get more volunteers (I'd volunteer 2). > > Also, while I'm at it, sponsors of open source products are often credited - > the mirrors should have a web page crediting the responsible hosts with > banners / links to them if they would like it... (or has this appeared at > some point since I started participating)... Of course tier 1 mirrors would > get top billing. ;-)
Aren't we missing something obvious here? Shouldn't we be using some sort of distributed technology like BitTorrent? I'm sure I've seen distribution schemes that organise a tree of downloads with a suitable branching ratio so that no one server is overloaded, and I've also seen tricks for pushing out one copy which is daisy-chained through many servers in real time so that everyone in the chain has one input feed and one output feed, but everyone receives the data at the same time, modulo a few seconds latency from end to end... We need to be looking at more creative schemes in line with modern distributed and parallel networks. If it's good enough for the warez kiddies it should be good enough for us. I bet you with a few hours thought we could come up with a hybrid scheme which pushed out updates over a hierarchy to a sufficient number of 24x7 fixed-ip machines, from which dynamic unpushable clients could poll and fetch updates from without a damaging overhead on any one server. We can't afford to use the old gentle methods. The viruses don't. We need to push updates out almost instantly. Blaster went round the world in 15 minutes. We have to be able to fully distribute our updates in 5 - efficiently, but not in a way that causes net congestion on any one link. G ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
