Problems with InstantMirror and iso images

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:50:02PM -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Orion Poplawski wrote:
> >Orion Poplawski wrote:
> >>For some reason apparently the download.fedora.redhat.com server 
> >>doesn't product Last-Modified headers for iso images.  This prevents 
> >>InstantMirror from working with them.  Thoughts?
> 
> snip
> 
> >Some more info (looks like a redirect to ftp).  I'll file a ticket.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken that redirect is there so that it can share the load 
> with a few different primary mirrors (so intentional).

The redirect to FTP is intentional because older apache servers can't
serve >2GB files.

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
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