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Paul Gortmaker (gpg109@leonard.anu.edu.au) wrote:
: Haven't seen this plastered all over the place yet, so it can't hurt to
: mention it again (and again...) Might save some load on the OS link(s).
: ANU's SunSITE machine in Canberra (aka Boomer) is happily cranking away, and
: has a full mirror of the Linux goodies from its brother "sunsite.unc.edu" 
: over in North Carolina. Try one of these:
: 	http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/archives/
: 	ftp://sunsite.anu.edu.au/pub/linux

Finally a Australian (quick) mirror of the redhat distribution!!!! YEAH!!!

Many thanks...

Regards..

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gpg109@leonard.anu.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker) writes:

>Haven't seen this plastered all over the place yet, so it can't hurt to
>mention it again (and again...) Might save some load on the OS link(s).

>ANU's SunSITE machine in Canberra (aka Boomer) is happily cranking away, and
>has a full mirror of the Linux goodies from its brother "sunsite.unc.edu" 
>over in North Carolina. Try one of these:

	^^^ full mirror? .. Theres things missing .. like the debain 
distribution thats on sunsite in /pub/Linux/distributions/debian isnt on 
the anu site ... and i have found other things which are on sunsite and not on
sunsite.anu ... 

mayybe its an oversight or something ..but it just aint here :P

>	http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/archives/
>	ftp://sunsite.anu.edu.au/pub/linux

>Happy downloading.

>Paul.

Anthony.
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In article <4kvbhc$oar@wumpus.its.uow.edu.au>,
Anthony Green <agreen@wumpus.its.uow.edu.au> wrote:
>gpg109@leonard.anu.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker) writes:
>
>>Haven't seen this plastered all over the place yet, so it can't hurt to
>>mention it again (and again...) Might save some load on the OS link(s).
>
>>ANU's SunSITE machine in Canberra (aka Boomer) is happily cranking away, and
>>has a full mirror of the Linux goodies from its brother "sunsite.unc.edu" 
>>over in North Carolina. Try one of these:
>
>	^^^ full mirror? .. Theres things missing .. like the debain 
>distribution thats on sunsite in /pub/Linux/distributions/debian isnt on 
>the anu site ... and i have found other things which are on sunsite and not on
>sunsite.anu ... 
>
>mayybe its an oversight or something ..but it just aint here :P
>
>>	http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/archives/
>>	ftp://sunsite.anu.edu.au/pub/linux
>
>>Happy downloading.
>
>>Paul.
>
>Anthony.


Agreed.  I've found it's missing quite a bit there.

Are there any plans of a FULL mirror of sunsite?

Cheers,

Matt.


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agreen@wumpus.its.uow.edu.au (Anthony Green) writes:
>gpg109@leonard.anu.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker) writes:

>>ANU's SunSITE machine in Canberra (aka Boomer) is happily cranking away, and
>>has a full mirror of the Linux goodies from its brother "sunsite.unc.edu" 
>>over in North Carolina. Try one of these:

>	^^^ full mirror? .. Theres things missing .. like the debain 
>distribution thats on sunsite in /pub/Linux/distributions/debian isnt on 
>the anu site ... and i have found other things which are on sunsite and not on
>sunsite.anu ... 

well .. not many people use debian (speaking from the download stats :)
and .. trust me ... it is DAMN hard to maintain a up-to-date mirror of
sunsite.unc.edu, some times you have to make sacrifices and sometimes there
is not a lot you can do about it even if you want too.
I think we (ftp.dstc.edu.au) finally decided to axe debian because it was
taking too long to mirror (and holding up the mirroring of other more popular
directories) and percentage wise .. no one was using it.

>mayybe its an oversight or something ..but it just aint here :P

Well .. I wish them luck down there in ANU .. tis a tought battle trying to
keep up.

Remember: be nice to them .. most of these people do it for Zero dollars,
so if you like their service .. send them a thank-you note/email :)

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gpg109@leonard.anu.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker) writes:

>	http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/archives/

Any chance of also mirroring http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/linux.html?
(ie. the Linux Documentation Project Home Page)


And why does Netscape change the "Location:" label to "Netsite:"?  Not
another one of these hacks like "jwz", I hope.

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gpg109@leonard.anu.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker) writes:

>Haven't seen this plastered all over the place yet, so it can't hurt to
>mention it again (and again...) Might save some load on the OS link(s).

>ANU's SunSITE machine in Canberra (aka Boomer) is happily cranking away, and
>has a full mirror of the Linux goodies from its brother "sunsite.unc.edu" 
>over in North Carolina. Try one of these:

>	http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/archives/
>	ftp://sunsite.anu.edu.au/pub/linux

I suppose i might add that DSTC mirrors the linux kernel patches from finland
under: ftp://ftp.dstc.edu.au/pub/linux-kernel

Our sunsite/kernel mirror is setup so that it lives in the same area as sunsite's
kernel area is, e.g /pub/linux/kernel/v1.3, to save disk space.

This mirror checks more than once a day, so it usually has the latest kernel
patches within a few hours of release. Especially useful for avoiding those
2M downloads of a complete kernel tar from europe.

as for comments about redhat.. an example of how difficult it is to mirror
from the redhat home site.. i've had a redhat mirror running for > 2 days
now, and i think it's transferred about 10 files so far. :-/

-jason
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gpg109@leonard.anu.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker) wrote:

>Haven't seen this plastered all over the place yet, so it can't hurt to
>mention it again (and again...) Might save some load on the OS link(s).

>ANU's SunSITE machine in Canberra (aka Boomer) is happily cranking away, and
>has a full mirror of the Linux goodies from its brother "sunsite.unc.edu" 
>over in North Carolina. Try one of these:

>	http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/archives/
>	ftp://sunsite.anu.edu.au/pub/linux

>Happy downloading.

>Paul.

	The home site for Slackware in the US is ftp.cdrom.com.  I believe
there is also a list of full mirror sites available from the site.  
	If this interests you, things are usually pretty quiet on the net over
here between 2300 and 0400 Pacific Daylight Time (-8.00 GMT).

	Hope this helps.

		Paul G.



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jason andrade (jason@dstc.edu.au) wrote:
: gpg109@leonard.anu.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker) writes:

: from the redhat home site.. i've had a redhat mirror running for > 2 days
: now, and i think it's transferred about 10 files so far. :-/

Well don't tell anyone here at rmit (you rmit sys admins press  'n' now)
I mirrored ftp.redhat.com to a system here at rmit in about 6 hours, that
was the full redhat package.

So I don't think it's ftp.redhat.com..

If your trying to mirror from gatekeeper.digital.com.au then forget it!!
Mirror will run for weeks on end. That site is so slow!

Regards..

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jason@dstc.edu.au (jason andrade) writes:

> as for comments about redhat.. an example of how difficult it is to mirror
> from the redhat home site.. i've had a redhat mirror running for > 2 days
> now, and i think it's transferred about 10 files so far. :-/

Well, unless they've upgraded since there was last any mention of this,
redhat.com is on a 28k8 connection - it might be worth your while to
look at mirroring the RedHat stuff from ftp.caldera.com instead.

Matt

rwi@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au (Ross Irvine) writes:

>jason andrade (jason@dstc.edu.au) wrote:
>: gpg109@leonard.anu.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker) writes:

>: from the redhat home site.. i've had a redhat mirror running for > 2 days
>: now, and i think it's transferred about 10 files so far. :-/

>Well don't tell anyone here at rmit (you rmit sys admins press  'n' now)
>I mirrored ftp.redhat.com to a system here at rmit in about 6 hours, that
>was the full redhat package.

>So I don't think it's ftp.redhat.com..

blink. 6 hours?

ftp [~ftp/pub/linux-redhat]# du -s redhat-3.0.3
805978  redhat-3.0.3

that's *ahem* pretty impressive. i recently needed to get a 170M file
from the us and i got 3.6K/sec.  At that rate, the above would have taken
over 55 hours, so i'm not sure how `6' was obtainable.

i think the redhat mirror might be close to complete now btw.

-jason
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jason andrade (jason@dstc.edu.au) wrote:
: rwi@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au (Ross Irvine) writes:
: 
: blink. 6 hours?
: 
: ftp [~ftp/pub/linux-redhat]# du -s redhat-3.0.3
: 805978  redhat-3.0.3
: 
: that's *ahem* pretty impressive. i recently needed to get a 170M file
: from the us and i got 3.6K/sec.  At that rate, the above would have taken
: over 55 hours, so i'm not sure how `6' was obtainable.

Depends on What size your link to the net is too. RMIT is lucky enough to
have a 10 megabit link. Now that's quick!! OK ok... so there's the T3..
But hey, I wouldn't be compliaing about the fast link to the net in Australia.

 : i think the redhat mirror might be close to complete now btw.

Sorry, I meant the complete RPMS packages. That's all I got, not the
instimage directory, only the RPMS dir and sets directory (which is all
symlinks anyway..

Sorry for the confusion..

Regards..

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rwi@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au (Ross Irvine) writes:

>Depends on What size your link to the net is too. RMIT is lucky enough to
>have a 10 megabit link. Now that's quick!! OK ok... so there's the T3..
>But hey, I wouldn't be compliaing about the fast link to the net in Australia.

Hmm, i thought the RMIT -> MU 100mbit link was already installed. However
UQ -> Sydney is on a fastpac10 and then the US, so i don't think it's the local
pipe thats causing problems. i figured the usual culprit of mci -> rest of the
us, e.g ftp.redhat was where the bottleneck would be.

>Sorry, I meant the complete RPMS packages. That's all I got, not the
>instimage directory, only the RPMS dir and sets directory (which is all
>symlinks anyway..
ah right. that'd explain it.

-jason
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