I wonder if we could use https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-399 or something similar to select a nearby Apache mirror.
You can always manually select a mirror and override the download location in the Whirr properties, but it would be nice to make this more automated. Tom On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Adrian Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > +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 >>
