Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 09 June 2009 15:48:26 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > Definitely.
> >
> > I have to beat users over the head (metaphorically) with a stick to get
> > them to use my mirror. They somehow have the idea that SRC_URI has better
> > quality bits than my ftp server...
> >
> > By going to SRC_URI every time, they use up precious international
> > bandwidth instead of local (of which there is heaps). Every six months,
> > when Fedora or Ubuntu does a release, those users can saturate the entire
> > pipe into this *country* - just to get isos that I already have publicly
> > available and am begging them to use.
>
> my university has a nice volume cap for all students. But everything
> downloaded from its own network - including the ftp servers is 'free' -
> only outside traffic counts.
>
> Luckily, my university hosts a major gentoo mirror. Not rsync, but
> distfiles. They also have ubuntu, suse, fedora stuff. Windows updates.. and
> still people don't use it. Annoying.

I'm six hours behind every mirror I sync - all major distros, every free BSD I 
can find and every major project out there; the only thing that lags is Ubuntu 
and Fedora at release time. And give it away at local prices over ftp, http, 
rsync

Why? The company has 2000 employees. The international bandwidth bill is 
larger than the salary bill - including bonuses, expense claims, subsidies...

So management is very very happy that I have a way to reduce that, and rather 
unhappy that users don't use it more

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