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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Mirrors removed from SORCERY (only smgl central site)
  • Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 10:00:38 -0700

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 10:17:05AM +0200, Eric Schabell wrote:
> > > > Im certainly not risking all of our work on the trust of some servers
> > > > I have no control over mirroring the bits I think they're mirroring,
> > > > let-alone getting those bits via insecure protocols.
> > >
> It amazes me....
>
> I have been hosting this for users in Europe long before we ever started
> using ibiblio... too bad we don't want to provide fallbacks, and I will
> just have to edit my sorcery url by hand I guess to avoid having to go
> to the usa for my updates.

We do provide fallback for spell sources and if you would like to host
one in europe it would benefit quite a few people over far more
than just sorcery, we can add you to the list of fallbacks before
the next stable sorcery comes out. This is of course, not the same
as mirroring sorcery. Just do a nightly summon --all, and export your
/var/spool/sorcery over ftp. Plus you can approximate the userbase size
by seeing how many hits per month you get :)

of course ibiblio is the only place that has the real test/stable sorcery
so you have to go there at least once for getting it.


>
> I guess we should also kill the p2p idea, this is also not "safe" and we
> might just get corrupted sourcemage tarballs. At least everyone can get
> focused back on releasing 1.0 by the ***cough, cough*** deadline! ;-)

Well I just wasnt going to say or do anything about p2p, but if other
people feel like wasting^Wspending time on it, thats their agenda. :)
Ive got a big pile of bugs to work on :)


>
> Thanks for taking the time to explain your security concept to me
> and let me know if you intend to include my links or not (once and for
> all).
> I can then free up some space on my site by removing the SMGL stuff...

I think I will take you up on that in the future once we get gpg signage
in, and possibly setup some round-robin (geo-ip based) dns or something
that makes it easier for us to control it from the top. For now though
a europe fallback for spell sources would be very helpful.

-Andrew



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