From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ME1vH-0006Ns-Db for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:03:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04447E043A; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E07E043A for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:03:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so4704887ewy.34 for ; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:03:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=uRLYhpxYUs97nUmnght1MKX2Qea6StT7qLYOHay8NM4=; b=uA1/zmzQ27SnjpMx6VGraHdf3BN6o2aeW50BqbSxZVmG0e6zEJ86Aiuv+j2MCGuNUv tup3dw48RbBr0cV9FUtIUk89Ysvera0Jky8DLAIQRmvuyTMsF/zKT4SF+Ir9vvL+VOSM PjvH79qF+54SC9LW9kYxx4P1kd8HIyCtTAGCM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=tB/++MzY+GJBsmEVrGvJtIyxFXhgS756LLLbd4NkN+UwU2R8jLSMyupRmKoclx6fP2 DLT2WE0AD0+EUpg5HRu09uJmqdnbyT+zZvHB0Qp35qE7t6GLWepDen3QCI4TZCu9i9sp lu9zDQovX+BzUHIxLqVSs/DPMfqnD9azZXKlc= Received: by 10.210.92.5 with SMTP id p5mr2773197ebb.22.1244556209162; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:03:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm264403eyb.15.2009.06.09.07.03.28 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:03:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:01:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <200906091534.33767.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200906091548.27007.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200906091548.27007.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906091601.56795.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: dac2d1a1-29aa-4255-a395-7198ae1b2eb6 X-Archives-Hash: cada09d146f84c81e6ee12ed7cd89dd5 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 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com