Re: Sorting out ftp.gnome.org mirroring.

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Telsa Gwynne wrote:

> 	My personal feeling is that we should just close off anonftp
> so only mirrors can get onto the main site, and people trying to ftp
> straight from ftp.gnome.org should get a "here is the mirrors list".
> But I know my local mirrors, so I don't use ftp.gnome.org and this
> doesn't greatly affect me, unless it's something outside the
> /pub/GNOME/ directory. So I am biassed :) 

Well, the other option would be to put ftp.gnome.org on a different
network, and have it so only mirrors and package maintainers access the
current ftp.gnome.org.  This would make ftp.gnome.org into a mirror
itself, and would take some of the bandwidth pressure off our current
servers.

I know the issue of moving things to sourceforge has been a bit
controversial (losing control, etc), but having them act as a primary ftp
server for gnome might be a good idea.

One possible downside is that packages would not appear on ftp.gnome.org
immediately.

James.

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