What is the problem with the mirrors?

[John Ellson]

seth vidal wrote:

>>i386
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>>ibiblio doesn't have any rpmdb
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>>kernel.org has rpmdb for March 19, but not March 22.
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>>duke seems to have died altogether
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>>redhat mirrors are impossible to log into this morning
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>The problem is simple.
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>1. LOTS of changes last week to development
>2. 5KB/s download rates from the mirror master to mirrors
>3. everyone in the world wanting everything updated at any given second.
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>It's just not possible to count on that much data synced world-wide if
>any one of the mirrors can't get any rates.
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>oh and 'duke seems to have died' is b/c a world of people repointed
>their rsyncs to us when their download rates off of the red hat master
>dropped to modem speeds.
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>The theory was that I was somehow magically able to get the bits. The
>theory is wrong but...
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Isn't the solution also simple?

Give the mirror sites a priority access somehow, or perhaps a private 
master server?


John