Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync issue on only one comp on LAN

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:54:30PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 02/10/2013 20:48, Bruce Hill wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 05:45:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >>
> >> Then you can all use mine with the greatest of pleasure:
> >>
> >> SYNC="rsync://ftp.is.co.za/gentoo-portage"
> >>
> >>
> >> I have the NetOps team BEGGING me weekly to try and generate more
> >> traffic out of our network going international. The in-out ratio on the
> >> peering links is seriously screwed and they badly want something to even
> >> it out a bit :-)
> > 
> > Just for giggles I tried it too, from the US. Slower than turtles mating. ;)
> > 
> 
> 
> Give the poor thing a break - it's not dedicated to Gentoo :-)
> 
> There's about 11TB of mirrors on that host = full copies of every major
> distro, most of the popular middle teir ones and full copies of all 3 BSDs
> 
> The general public keep it busy - I blame them :-)

I didn't mean anything disrespectful (notice my winky), just that from the US
it's rather slow. But it's still listed, commented, in make.conf.

Thanks, Alan!
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