Re: Downloading Debian from European Sites

2000-08-11 Thread Jonathan Belson
>On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 10:38:37AM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: >> > some time ago I reported that www.uk.debian.org is not an UK >> > site, as it is in fact a site in the east coast of the USA. Eh? That's Phil Hand's site - i

Re: Downloading Debian from European Sites

2000-08-11 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 10:38:37AM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > some time ago I reported that www.uk.debian.org is not an UK > > site, as it is in fact a site in the east coast of the USA. > > Today I am reporting that the situat

Re: Downloading Debian from European Sites

2000-07-24 Thread Matthias Pfisterer
Hi, I get transfer rates of 800kB(yte)/s from ftp.de.debian.org. Too slow? The site is located in Dresden, Germany. Matthias Sergio Brandano wrote: > > Hi, > > ... I received a few messages of reply, that are clearly missing > the point. The point is that servers in Europe are slow. It is

Re: Downloading Debian from European Sites

2000-07-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I think you're in the land of the not-so-clever guess, probably based > on the assumption that there is some relationship between the physical > location of www.uk.debian.org and the contact address for debian.org. > > This is a fairly dim assumption, given that www.uk.debian.org is a > CNAME fo

Re: Downloading Debian from European Sites

2000-07-24 Thread Philip Hands
Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, is xtraceroute broken? If you have an explanation, let me know > about it. Reading xtraceroute's homepage, one sees: 5: How does it work? It gets all the site names from traceroute, and then it checks them out against a few small databa

Re: Downloading Debian from European Sites

2000-07-24 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 10:38:37AM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > Hi, > > some time ago I reported that www.uk.debian.org is not an UK > site, as it is in fact a site in the east coast of the USA. > Today I am reporting that the situation is as it was, and that > other European sites are

Re: Downloading Debian from European Sites

2000-07-24 Thread Sergio Brandano
Hi, ... I received a few messages of reply, that are clearly missing the point. The point is that servers in Europe are slow. It is not a problem of my connection for sure. I really do not know how fast it is, I will ask, but is good enough to note the difference when connecting to these s

Re: Downloading Debian from European Sites

2000-07-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Sergio Brandano wrote: > some time ago I reported that www.uk.debian.org is not an UK > site, as it is in fact a site in the east coast of the USA. That's complete nonsense, the machine is in London. > Today I am reporting that the situation is as it was, and that > other European

Downloading Debian from European Sites

2000-07-22 Thread Sergio Brandano
Hi, some time ago I reported that www.uk.debian.org is not an UK site, as it is in fact a site in the east coast of the USA. Today I am reporting that the situation is as it was, and that other European sites are very slow. sunsite.org has a very good mirroring system in London UK but is no