Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:17:37 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org, FTP <ftp@halifax.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: /pub/FreeBSD or /FreeBSD Message-ID: <4CD93BE1.6070705@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <20101109095110.GG2741@daedalus.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <4CD91428.5090002@bsdforen.de> <20101109095110.GG2741@daedalus.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
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On 09/11/2010 10:51, Carsten Otto wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:28:08AM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> Is there an official policy for the mirror layout? > > We (ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de) serve /pub/FreeBSD although we do not > use this layout for the other projects. I guess we did this because of > some official policy. I think I might have made a mistake here. I checked again and my estimate for half the servers was a) grossly exaggerated and b) the issue is more present over http. Those don't work: http://ftp.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ http://ftp3.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ http://ftp4.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ http://ftp6.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ (no HTTP at all) These work: ftp://ftp.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp3.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp6.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ So, I have three distinct problems with half the German mirrors, two offer /pub/FreeBSD only through FTP, but not HTTP. One (ftp4.de) does not offer /pub/FreeBSD at all. And one does not offer HTTP access, so if I switched back to FTP, 3 quarters of my problem would disappear and I'd have 8 working mirrors instead of 5 out of 9. So I should probably justify my use of HTTP: - Less latency (important for small downloads) - 8-stable/All/automounter-1.4.3.tbz with the same connection: HTTP: 0.20s, 0.20s, 0.20s FTP: 0.39s, 0.62s, 0.39s, 0.39s (I'd throw the 0.62s away as a glitch) - It needs 77 packages to install firefox, 70 of these are below 1.5m, which is a small file by broadband standards, i.e. for 90% of the packages latency is an important parameter - Only one connection per file instead of two (a server can run out of ports twice as fast with FTP), unless I am very mistaken about how HTTP and FTP work Regards -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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