Re: [Flightgear-devel] Password SOMETIMES required
On 3/3/10 5:16 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: > Proftpd has the ability to limit the number of connections from any single > host. Otherwise one person often ends up grabbing all the available > download slots. Anyone want to look into a torrent? Is there an easy > recipe for setting one up? What's the bandwidth required to seed it? I am no expert on this at all, I haven't even created a seed yet. I suppose I am a leech but I browsed the web for a short while and came up with these suggestions: 1) Urgently, someone who has a decent upload speed and has his computer on-line 24/7 could seed the packages and publish them on fg web site and torrent tracker sites ... after reasonable time there would be enough copies available. Assuming that there are not too many leeches I don't think bandwidth is an issue. 2) Maybe web seeding could solve the problem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29#Web_seeding 3) Or maybe one of the current ftp site maintainers could utilize http://www.torrentflux.com/ which may help? 4) There are seed boxes that can be used for a cost, http://filesharefreak.com/2009/01/15/10-really-cheap-seedboxes-that-anyone-can-afford/ As I understand the problem for fg is that we cannot rely on someone seeding just to be nice, it must be a more central source. Naively I think this is accomplished by setting up a tracker for the fg torrents only (or use a public tracker) and providing a seed that is always online. This would guarantee the availability (avoid the swarm to die http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29#The_leech_problem) of the packages but benefit from other peers during peak traffic. I think this is something that should be set up by the current bandwidth providers. They would benefit from the set up also. Surely, there must be someone among the list readers who knows more about these things? Jari -- 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
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Password SOMETIMES required
Curtis Olson wrote: > Proftpd has the ability to limit the number of connections from any single > host. Yup, "MaxClientsPerHost" works pretty well as a 'general' rule, but still doesn't yield the desired effect because the client hostname/IP verification calls _after_ the initial connection has been accepted. In consequence, download managers are quickly catching free connections, thus filling the pool of allowed connections _before_ getting thrown out. Thus, limiting the number of connections per client indeed permits to restrict the number of FTP data connections but unfortunately doesn't result in a beneficial management of the allowed number of connections. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- -- 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
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Password SOMETIMES required
Proftpd has the ability to limit the number of connections from any single host. Otherwise one person often ends up grabbing all the available download slots. Anyone want to look into a torrent? Is there an easy recipe for setting one up? What's the bandwidth required to seed it? Curt. On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Martin Spott wrote: > Gijs de Rooy wrote: > >> j...@kingmont.com wrote: > > >> Just wanted to let folks know that SOMETIMES you will get a message > requiring > >> a user name and password when attempting to access the mirror site at > >> http://kingmont.com. > > > > The other two (official) mirrors have the same behaviour. Already for > three days... > > Blame those idiots who are using "download managers" to create multiple > connections to a single host (for a single file) > > Cheers, >Martin. > -- > Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! > -- > > > -- > 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 > -- Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~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
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Password SOMETIMES required
Gijs de Rooy wrote: >> j...@kingmont.com wrote: >> Just wanted to let folks know that SOMETIMES you will get a message >> requiring >> a user name and password when attempting to access the mirror site at >> http://kingmont.com. > > The other two (official) mirrors have the same behaviour. Already for three > days... Blame those idiots who are using "download managers" to create multiple connections to a single host (for a single file) Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- -- 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
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Password SOMETIMES required
> j...@kingmont.com wrote: > > Just wanted to let folks know that SOMETIMES you will get a message requiring > a user name and password when attempting to access the mirror site at > http://kingmont.com. The other two (official) mirrors have the same behaviour. Already for three days... Gijs _ Alles over Windows http://www.windows.nl/About.aspx-- 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
[Flightgear-devel] Password SOMETIMES required
Just wanted to let folks know that SOMETIMES you will get a message requiring a user name and password when attempting to access the mirror site at http://kingmont.com. This only happens when the site is at it's maximum user load, so if you know of anyone seeing this problem, let them know that they SHOULD be able to get on the site without the need for a user name and password. Tell them to try again later. jj-- 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
