On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 11:02, Atul Chitnis wrote:
> On 31 Mar 2003, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> 
> > Has Red Hat reduced the maximum number of simultaneous connections? Has
> > the number of RHL linux users increased so much during past weeks?
> 
> One of two things:
> 
> 1. There are a zillion people hammering the site trying to get at RHL9 
>    before it is actually released

Well, they should know they are wasting their time (at least, until
April, 7h) They'd better sign up for a RHN account instead ;-)

> 2. RHL has simply set the allowed user count to zero to prevent people 
>    from aimlessly scouring through the site looking for RHL9 ISOs, thereby 
>    eating up bandwidth

I've been able to log on, but it took me more than twelve attempts, and
that's a lot.

> I suspect it is either (2) or a combination of (1) and (2). Since the 
> behaviour is uniform on all RH sites, I guess it is more likely (2).
> 
> 6 hours to go to the RHL9 release (for RHN subscribers).

I'm at GTM+01... So, how many hours are left? :-)

________________________________________________________________________
        Felipe Alfaro Solana
   Linux Registered User #287198
http://counter.li.org



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