Re: Fedora Core 2 Distribution Size

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

> In general, http is "encouraged" for downloading of updates and individual 
> packages for FC (up2date also uses it).  To me this makes lots of sense since 
> the various proxy servers in the network can do a much better job of load 
> balancing than running multiple ftp servers with rotating access via dns.
> 
> However, I noticed that when the ISOs are downloaded, ftp is forced.  Is there 
> some reason for this.  I would think that the same load balancing logic that 
> applied for packages would also ally to the ISO images.

ftp is forced? forced from where? You can download the iso images from
the duke mirror, for example, via http.

-sv