Graham Toal said: >> Currently each mirror contributes around 100GB of traffic monthly >> >> Perhaps (not sure of the DNS system in place) could be arranged so that >> 10% >> of the requests a full primary mirror receives could be directed to a >> secondary level mirror. With a committment of only roughly 10GB per >> month, >> we'd get more volunteers (I'd volunteer 2). >> >> Also, while I'm at it, sponsors of open source products are often >> credited - >> the mirrors should have a web page crediting the responsible hosts with >> banners / links to them if they would like it... (or has this appeared >> at >> some point since I started participating)... Of course tier 1 mirrors >> would >> get top billing. ;-) > > Aren't we missing something obvious here? Shouldn't we be using some > sort of distributed technology like BitTorrent? > > I'm sure I've seen distribution schemes that organise a tree of downloads > with a suitable branching ratio so that no one server is overloaded, and > I've also seen tricks for pushing out one copy which is daisy-chained > through many servers in real time so that everyone in the chain has > one input feed and one output feed, but everyone receives the data > at the same time, modulo a few seconds latency from end to end...
In fact that is why I chose to use the term franchisee earlier - so far I've described only the first layer in all of this. A full working model would be a tree structure not unlike the Amway model. Only without the huckstering. > > We need to be looking at more creative schemes in line with modern > distributed and parallel networks. If it's good enough for the warez > kiddies it should be good enough for us. > > I bet you with a few hours thought we could come up with a hybrid > scheme which pushed out updates over a hierarchy to a sufficient > number of 24x7 fixed-ip machines, from which dynamic unpushable > clients could poll and fetch updates from without a damaging overhead > on any one server. Associate it with a business model that creates revenue for the nodes and the mother ship and you are on your way. dp ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users