Previously Sergio Brandano wrote: > some time ago I reported that www.uk.debian.org is not an UK > site, as it is in fact a site in the east coast of the USA. That's complete nonsense, the machine is in London. > Today I am reporting that the situation is as it was, and that > other European sites are very slow. ftp.nl.debian.org is quite fast for me. sunsite.org.uk is fast as well, but has a tendency to be slightly out of sync. ftp.de.debian.org is better, but might not be very fast from Italy. There does seem to be ftp.it.debian.org though, have you tried that? > I propose the creation of one (1) Debian site in Europe, in replacement of > all the others. We already have a bunch of up to daste fast mirrors in Europe. It's much more likely that it is your connectivity that is the problem here. > The money spent in managing all the sites will be spent for managing this > super-site, for improved performance. There is no single person managing the funds for these sites, they all fund themselves. It's impossible to get them to redirect their own funds to sponsor some new site. And it's not needed either. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@wiggy.net http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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