Re: first A record of security.debian.org extremely slow

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

Am 2006-02-27 15:31:20, schrieb martin f krafft:
> also sprach Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> [2006.02.25.2036 +0100]:
> > debian-security is allready mirrored by some servers including
> > 
> >     <ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-security/>
> 
> You are not really supposed to use those as they are pulled once
> daily only, and security is a time-critical domain where sometimes
> it's very important to have updates without any delays.

Right and some Servers hosting /debian-security/ are some days behind.

I can not use rsync because I have a different directory structure AND
I do not want to kill one of the security mirrors of debian, fow often
should I poll the Packages.gz/Sources.gz for changes daily?

Please note, that my own update script does:

    1)  Download Packages.gz/Sources.gz and check for changes
    2)  Create list of files to download
    3)  Download the stuff
    4)  Delete old packages localy
    5)  create new Packages.gz/Sources.gz

I have encountered this works faster and more effectiv then using rsync.

Currently I poll <ftp://security.debian.org/> only once a day.

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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