Just because it's close (physically)(sic) to you does not indicate how close it
actually is in internet topography, try a traceroute to the LOWEST/FASTEST path!
Eaon wrote:
> While we are on the subject of messed up mirrors, Cadvision
> (ftp.cadvision.com) is listed on the cooker mirrors page, but their mirror
> of broken. It looks like it failed to finish mirroring on Jan 30th, and no
> one has started it back up again and fixed it. I've tried emailing them but
> got no response (and mirroring from them, with their server center being 20
> blocks from my home, would be far more efficient than pulling from anywhere
> else). Does anyone else have a contact there they could talk to and get
> this fixed?
>
> And incidentally, the Cooker page says Cadvision is in the U.S. It isn't.
> It is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. But now I'm just being
> patriotic. ;-)
>
> Otherwise, the University of Alberta (in Edmonton, 300 KMs north of Calgary)
> has a big, fat sunsite mirror and a big, fat pipe, but no mandrake-devel
> (7.2 and iso's, yes, devel, no). Has anyone considered asking them if they
> would add cooker to their site?
>
> Eaon
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guillaume Rousse
> > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:55 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [Cooker] Content of mirors
> >
> >
> > Who's in charge of mirror at mandrakesoft ?
> > How is it possible that some mirrors, as rsync.proxad.net, have more
> > content than primary mirrors (sunsite.uoi.no or sunet.se) ? They
> > have sparc
> > & alpha packages, for instance.
> > --
> > Guillaume Rousse
> >
> > Murphy's law : If anything can go wrong, it will.
> > O'Tool's commentary : Murphy was an optimist.
> >
