----- Forwarded message from Doug Porter ----- From: Doug Porter To: sourcemaster Subject: Cygwin mirrors and installation Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:17:08 -0500
Hi, I run archive.progeny.com, one of the Cygwin mirror sites. Our Cygwin mirror is heavily used; averaging around 140 GB per day. I was amazed by the demand for Cygwin, at least until I saw how mirrors were presented in the Cygwin installer. They are listed in alphabetical order and none of the locality information is provided (putting us at the top of the list, and as the default selection). After talking to other administrators, I found mirrors further down the list do far less Cygwin traffic. Would the Cygwin people please look into fixing this? The usage is not creating a problem at the moment, but it does seem a little silly for our mirror to carry so much of the load. Thank you. ----- End forwarded message -----