On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:57:55 +0200 Simon Paillard <simon.paillard@resel.enst-bretagne.fr> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:24:03PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2008-08-07 19:21:03, schrieb Bumpy Light: > > > "If you can, please use a BitTorrent client. Not only does this > > > greatly reduce technical and financial stress on our voluntary > > > mirrors, downloads > > > > HOW does this reduce it? > > > > The only difference will be you get 5000 different IP's in the log > > which are downloading only 500 MByte each instead of 250 > > downloading 4,7 GByte > > Because very few voluntary mirrors seeds ISOs (however I am not a fan > of BitTorrent/P2P for Debian ISO and moreoever for packages). > May I ask why not? I have been planning to have a bittorent 'server' of the Debian ISO's starting in the next couple of months. I use bittorrent for getting the ISO's when I have it working (I only bittorrent to my dmz not to my primary workstation, perhaps that's the issue for you is security?) and secondary mirrors when it is not (and I need a copy, which since I keep the copies on my hd only happens when there is a new release or my hd dies. I do keep my torrents current because I'm seeding rather than downloading most of the time, but that is done by torrent. And I compare the sha1sums once I've got a complete set. Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org The C Shore: http://www.wightman.ca/~cshore
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