On Wednesday, May 02, 2012 10:01:24 AM Basil Chupin wrote:
On 03/05/12 00:39, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar wrote:
Quoting Basil Chupin
: ... As already stated: there are different 'images' you can mirror. ... But then openSUSE should not classify them as mirrors but as sources of only selected files.
Basil, by definition mirror server holds exact copies of selected files from another web server. There is nothing in the term that tells what kind and scope of files it holds. For instance: http://ftp.iinet.net.au/linux/openSUSE/ is complete mirror of distribution, update, and factory-tested. To be honest they have quite a few other sites they mirror: http://ftp.iinet.net.au/linux/ and even more for: http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ I can only guess why they are doing this; to preserve bandwidth that they have to pay for. Web proxies used for the same purpose with normal web sites don't work fine for this type of download, ask Per for details. Problem is that someone using download.opensuse.org can be redirected to different servers, and web proxy will have to store the same file many times, defeating its purpose. When they have own mirror server and cooperate with distros, then users of iinet.net.au will be redirected to their own ftp site, so they have to download and pay for each file only once, and then serve to users as many times as they ask for. If you take that your ISP main reason to have mirrors is to save money then you can understand that they will host only the most downloaded files, not every file on mirrored server. When they make decision what to mirror input is number of downloads and size of files, in other words internet traffic. For the rest of files they are ready to pay when users want, once in a while, some exotic package.
BC
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