John on S8

[John]

Colin Watson wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:15:49PM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
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>>Colin Watson wrote:
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>>>We can probably get away without the mirror question in the case of
>>>security.
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>>If we know we have a good mirror, why not use that for security too?
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>People (myself, for starters) often mirror the main archive but not
>security. For security uploads it's often a good idea to go straight to
>the main site.
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Because some people pay for (excess) downloads?
Others have downloads charged against their "free" allocation and then 
get throttled. ugh.
For many, local sites don't count. Here, ftp.wa.au.debian.org is on WAIX 
and is free to clients of WAIX. Presumably, the Optusnet archive is free 
to Optus clients.

One of the things I disliked about RHN was that I could not get updates 
from my local mirror via RHN, even though they were there.

Local mirrors tend to be faster; a day or so ago I was downloading 
something at 40K bytes/sec on a link capable of ~150.