Maybe using torrents could help in distributing flightgear packages? I haven't used this distribution method myself but the mirror maintainers could maybe create seeds and announce them though the flightgear web site(s).
Jari On 2/24/10 5:15 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: > This message is primarily directed to those of you who maintain mirrors of > the FlightGear ftp content. Heads up! :-) > > For quite some time ftp.flightgear.org has resided on a machine I manage > myself. This worked out pretty well mostly when I set it up, but since then > my work situation has changed and I no longer have physical access to the > machine. In addition, the ftp drive on this machine has died. It's an > older machine, it's not convenient for me to get to it, and I think it's > time to start looking at moving on. > > Currently I am able to push content to 3 ftp sites. So if you maintain a > mirror, please stop mirroring from ftp.flightgear.org and point to one of > the following machines. mirrors.ibiblio.org is probably the preferred > source if you were going to pick just one. > > ftp://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/flightgear/ftp/ > ftp://ftp.kingmont.com/flightsims/flightgear/ > ftp://ftp.goflyflightgear.com/flightgear/ > > I notice that mirrors.ibiblio.org does offer an anonymous rsync daemon with > flightgear as one of the available targets (run "rsync mirrors.ibiblio.org::" > to see the available ibiblio.org rsync targets, and note the double colon in > the syntax.) > > I am hopefully that as many of our mirror maintainers as possible can get > their mirroring source adjusted quickly to help distribute the load of the > upcoming v2.0.0 release across as many servers as possible. > > Best regards, > > Curt. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
