Ahh, you obviously haven't read all the complaints on Slashdot from
Aussies :) There was one guy who did a traceroute on his neighbor and the
packet was going all the way to New York before coming back! It all
depends on which other ISPs your ISP is peering with at the NAP(?).
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Eaon wrote:
> Forget all the fancy topology junk, I just mirrored off it one night, and
> was pulling upwards of 700K/s. That's getting close to topping out the max
> speed of my cable modem. What more evidence do I need than that?
>
> Besides, just take a wild guess, what is going to be closer, topology-wise,
> to me, a mirror in the same city as me, or one on the other side of the
> Atlantic (and continent, since Alberta is on the west side of North
> America)? Can you give any example when it would be a shorter route to
> cross the planet than to go down the block?
>
> I wasn't just guessing about how good it was before I said something, I have
> been known on occasion to research (what little I had to do) what I say
> before I say it.
>
> Unfortunately it wasn't until the mirror was "done", i.e. downloaded all
> that it could, that I found out that the thing was broken. It goes as far
> as xearth (IIRC) in the Mandrake/RPMS directory, and everything
> alphabetically beyond that is not there (I checked against another mirror
> (ciril.fr) that I knew was good). images and boot directories are empty
> too.
>
> Eaon
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of JJ
> > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 2:08 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Cooker] Content of mirors
> >
> >
> > 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.
> > > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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