Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[david cherryholmes <david.cherryholmes AT gmail.com>]

On 11/22/05, Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> I'm on campus but I am getting fast web response for
> ibiblio.org/internetworkers
> the http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/internetworkers is also
> responding quickly.
> i do have the dsn already cached (but not those papes) so if the delay you
> were seeing is there then that could be a problem. unc has recently been
> changing nameservers around so ...

Thanks for the response!  My comments were directed specifically at
downloads, not serving up webpages or mailing lists.

> on sourceforge, we have to cap the sourceforge downloads to a reasonable
> capacity because of bandwidth use there.

Then it seems to me that ibiblio's definition of "reasonable capacity"
is, relative to most other places, on the very low side.  I get much
better speeds from Vanderbilt, Purdue, and most any other random
mirror I click on.

> our better alternative has been
> to develop a bittorrent solution see http://torrent.ibiblio.org for
> distros and other very large downloads. give it a try.

Will do!  Thanks for the tips.

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David Cherryholmes