Re: mirroring security.debian.org?
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:04:21 Mike Renfro wrote:
| On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:51:07PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
|
| > Please don't do that. Security updates should come *only* from
| > security.debian.org. This was discussed a while, you should be
| > able to find some blurb about it in the debian-devel archive, I
| > guess.
|
| Personally, I'd rather not mirror it, but our bandwidth is almost
| completely saturated 17-19 hours/day, so if I (or any other local
| Debian-using people) want to get security updates during the day, a
| local mirror updated nightly appeared to be the easiest option.
I am in a similar situation. I would also like to have a local
mirror, so that the multiple Debian machines do not need to go
over the internet line. Some do not even have internet access,
but would be able to access a local mirror.
| What are my other options -- I have frequently had timeouts trying to
| make updates from security.debian.org during the day. Assume the
| people in charge of managing our bandwidth are doing all they can, and
| the saturation problem isn't going away anytime soon.
|
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| Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
| 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu
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Kind regards,
Berend
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