On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Once a few mirrors have synched, the situation already should improve as far as load on gwgd.de is concerned. At least ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/opensuse/distribution is a very fast option. But will it really help to drop the load from gwdg.de ? I'm not sure. Most users will go to http://www.opensuse.org, click download and they end up on gwdg.de. Maybe the redirection should balance on gwdg.de and uni-erlangen.de, to the very least, once that mirror has synched.
With beta3 uni-erlangen.de wasn't synced up within the first 24 hours, if I remember correctly. By the way: download.opensuse.org isn't a static redirect to gwdg.de, it basically is dynamic with some hooks to redirect *i386*.iso to ftp.gwdg.de, to keep those isos in the buffer cache, which seems to work out very well... Regards Christoph