Are there any extra measures in place to prevent opensuse.org going down before the official 10.2 announcement, because of the hype?
What hype? Do you mean rush?
I think he means, are you prepared for a possible DoS ahead of the release announcement, on account of all the noise that was generated in response to the deal with The Company From Redmond�.
This article at http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/01/1641247 deals with how Metalink users were still able to easily download Fedora Core 6 at release. With the release of Fedora Core 6, their main website and yum update servers were unusable for days. I would guess this was because the main site was serving ISOs as well. I think it would be good to encourage people to download with methods that will lessen the strain on the main servers, at least for the first few days. p2p is great for this, but we have to remember that p2p isn't available to everyone. It's blocked by some universities, businesses, and ISPs. Besides regular p2p/bittorrent, you can continue using Metalink to spread out the downloads between mirrors, either removing the listing for the main server or lowering its priority rating. Metalinks can list mirrors, along with torrents, ed2k, and magnet links. People can then download from local servers if they set their location, since the mirrors have location and priority information. <url type="ftp" location="jp" preference="10"> ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/openSUSE/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-RC1/iso/openSUSE-10.2-RC1-i386-CD1.iso </url> <url type="http" location="jp" preference="10"> http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Linux/packages/opensuse/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-RC... </url> The Metalinks for RC1 are available at http://download.packages.ro/metalink/opensuse/ . Ones for the final release will be automatically generated once the ISOs are synced to the mirrors. (( Anthony Bryan )) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org