+1 this archive.apache.org issue also plagued me on cassandra testing of openjdk just now.
Seems a blobcache option could be handy. Otherwise, someone needs to foot the bill for CDN access (would need a volunteer ready for some $$$/month potentially, especially as other projects discover these links) -A On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Andrei Savu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have just done a bit of testing from eu-west-1 - downloading the Hadoop > .tar.gz (93 MB) from: > http://archive.apache.org/dist/hadoop/core/hadoop-0.20.205.0/ > > It failed 10 times in a row!! Any suggestions for a better location? Should > we start to think about hosting > the required artefacts in a different place? (S3 + cloudfront) > > This is the root cause of the many transient failures we are seeing when > deploying clusters. > > I would even recommend to our users to build a cache for what they are > using. > > -- Andrei Savu >
