Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors

1998-10-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Lukas> Once someone posted this script to find the fastest debian mirror, Lukas> which could be used in some way in the postinst of apt: IIRC Chris Lameter wrote this as part of one of his misc. utility packages. I rewrote it in perl (and added a thing or two) as part of the mirror package w

Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors

1998-10-22 Thread servis
*- Lukas Eppler wrote about "Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors" | On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Frock wrote: | > I'm submitting this as a bug in hope that we might want apt to use a | > random ftp-site carrying debian when installing - instead of everyone | > using the same

Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors

1998-10-22 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Frock wrote: > I'm submitting this as a bug in hope that we might want apt to use a > random ftp-site carrying debian when installing - instead of everyone > using the same host (ftp1.us.debian.org) Once someone posted this script to find the fastest debian mirror, which could

Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors

1998-10-22 Thread A. M. Varon
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > It seems that ftp1.us.debian.org has had a recent surge in popularity, to > the point that it was saturating it's outbound connection! Unfortunately > this has resulted in it being shut down :< > > We have quite a few mirrors around the world, a parti

Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors

1998-10-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 03:03:53AM +0200, Frock wrote: > I'm submitting this as a bug in hope that we might want apt to use a > random ftp-site carrying debian when installing - instead of everyone > using the same host (ftp1.us.debian.org) Since it's a conffile, is it unreasonable to expect peopl

Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors

1998-10-22 Thread Frock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Package: Apt Version: N/A Severity: Wishlist I'm submitting this as a bug in hope that we might want apt to use a random ftp-site carrying debian when installing - instead of everyone using the same host (ftp1.us.debian.org) This will spread the load between al

Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors

1998-10-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
G, I wonder if it was because installing apt this was selected by default. Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > It seems that ftp1.us.debian.org has had a recent surge in popularity, to > the point that it was saturating it's outbound connection! Unfortunately > this has resulted in it being shut down :<

ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors

1998-10-22 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
It seems that ftp1.us.debian.org has had a recent surge in popularity, to the point that it was saturating it's outbound connection! Unfortunately this has resulted in it being shut down :< We have quite a few mirrors around the world, a partial list can be found at http://www.debian.org/~jgg/Mir