From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 7 12:12:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 238AF37B64D for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:12:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdead.mooseriver.com (gdead.mooseriver.com [205.166.121.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDA943E91 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:12:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgrosch@mooseriver.com) Received: from mooseriver.com ([66.166.146.73]) by gdead.mooseriver.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gA7KC4Tn099484; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:12:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgrosch@mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by mooseriver.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id gA7KAd6v028368; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:10:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:10:39 -0800 From: Josef Grosch To: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrom.com data transfer record Message-ID: <20021107201039.GA28325@mooseriver.com> Reply-To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com References: <3DCAC7A2.7010409@401.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DCAC7A2.7010409@401.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:05:54PM +0100, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > Hi list > > Some time ago I read some kind of announcement or article about > cdrom.com and their FTP archive that broke some kind of record in > amount of data transferred from a single machine in 24 hours. It > even had a link to the ISP that explained about their network and > their part in helping cdrom.com break this record. > I seem to recall that part of what made the FTP archive break > this record was the fact that a new version of Red Hat and > Slackware was released on the same day. IIRC it was Red Hat 6.2, > so it was a while ago. > > Does anyone have a link or reference to the article Im talking > about? www.cdrom.com just redirects me to simtel.net, and I find > absolutely nothing of value there. Yes, that happened on 24 May 1999. You can find the announcement at http://bafug.org/news/NewRecord.html Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 4.7 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | www.bafug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message