Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:22:45 +0100 From: Francois Petillon <fantec@proxad.net> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISO downloads with multiple mirrors for higher reliabilty, automatic checksum verification Message-ID: <455096B5.5090401@proxad.net> In-Reply-To: <000301c7010c$4675d070$0201a8c0@blip> References: <000301c7010c$4675d070$0201a8c0@blip>
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Anthony L. Bryan wrote: > I can not force download managers or metalink clients to change how > they have been behaving for years, but I can encourage them to be > respectful of server resources. You are encouraging people to misbehave : ---- http://www.metalinker.org/why.html Metalink was designed for describing the locations of large files that are multi-located (shared via many mirrors and with P2P) so segments can be downloaded from different places at the same time, automatically. ---- Automatic load balancing distributes traffic so individual servers are under less strain. ---- > Can you think of some per transfer and per server options that would help > the situation? As far as I am concerned, either someone uses a single connection to a local/nearby server to download (using segmented download should be use only for failover), or he uses P2P. I will quote Marco d'Itri (cf debian-devel ML last september) : ---- To summarize the issue: * parallel downloads are bad * using P2P when local mirrors are available is very bad ---- François
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