Cristian Gutierrez wrote: > Sam Halliday writes: > >i am trying to convert a bunch of friends to using Debian GNU/Linux > >as opposed to the unmaintained Redhat... a major selling point being > >the constant maintenance and security updates by FTP and HTTP. > > > >unfortunately all of the would-be-converts are in a university > >network which has bandwidth allocation caps on FTP and HTTP. for > >example: a typical FTP download (to a machine 5 miles away) goes at > >~2K/s, even when the undergrads have all gone home and are not > >clogging the resources, whereas an scp (across a hemisphere and a > >timezone) goes~200K/s. the good news being that port 22 is not > >capped: i was wondering if there were SFTP sources equivalent to the > >FTP lists? (or any other non ftp/http methods which may solve this > >problem) > > May be they can use an external proxy via ssh. Say, they have ssh > access to host X where X is outside their university network and can > use a proxy on Y:8000 (Y could be X itself). Now they can forward > their localhost:8000 to Y:8000 ssh'ing through X, and set APT to use > localhost:8000 as a proxy. unfortunately thats sounds like the only available option, as non ftp/http source do not seem to exist. the problem is that i do not know anyone external to the network, with root access to a box, willing to give up bandwidth and ports for the cause :-/. thanks anyway though... ill ask around. i know this is a long shot, but has anyone got an FTP mirror running on a non-standard port? cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fhsst Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel
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