Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (606 mails)

[Steffen Moser <moser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Torsten Mueller wrote:

> i also use the mirror script for this.
> My config file for the update of 6.4 looks like this:
> 
> package=suseupdate
>         comment=suseupdate
>         site=ftp.suse.com
>         local_dir=/daten/suse/suse64/update/
>         remote_user=anonymous
>         remote_password=torsten@xxxxxxxx
>         remote_dir=/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/
>         passive_ftp=true
>         mail_to=torsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Wouldn't it be better to use a mirror site of "ftp.suse.com"? I think
that German users (especially users who are connected to "DFN") have a
much faster connection to SuSE's primary mirror "ftp.gwdg.de". 

I am writing this to avoid that many people are simply going to copy
your "mirror" config file... "ftp.suse.com" has been under high load for
the last months (at least this is my experience), although it became
better in last weeks.

After the release of "kde-2.0", "kde-2.1", "kde-2.1.1", "XFree86-4.0.3"
and the ftp version of SuSE Linux 7.1 it took quite a long time until
"ftp.gwdg.de" mirrored all directories completely (perhaps due to high
load on "ftp.suse.com"?). Now "ftp.gwdg.de" seems to be more "up to
date" again.

Best regards,
Steffen