Subject: Debian mirroring: bad problem!

From: Yves Arrouye <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 19:36:55 +0200

I had problems getting things from the ftp.ibp.fr Debian mirror, and
other French sites (which may or may not mirror from ftp.ibp.fr). I'd
like the concerned people to read the answer of the ftp.ibp.fr mirror
and try to do something about it: I think it would be really bad for
Debian not to be mirrored on sites like ftp.ibp.fr where a lot of
people in France are looking for Linux distributions.

I'd suggest too that Incoming could be mirrored so that people like me
that gets things there sometimes do not overload the US Debian site
which is the only one that have Incoming full (given that things in
Incoming are not always quickly moved, we sometimes *have* to get
things from there).

Yves.

P.S.: their mirror is completely wrecked, but if they can get a
mirroring account in a specific class, I'm sure they'll gladly delete
their damaged Debian hierarchy and mirror again.

Remy Card writes:
 > > Hello,
 > > 
 > > Trying to get the latest ncurses-base from a Debian mirror (ftp.ibp.fr)
 > > I found:
 > > 
 > >	[...]
 > >
 > > I wonder if the problem is found on other mirror sites or if this is
 > > only a problem with the ftp.ibp.fr site?
 > 
 > 	Well, don't be surprised if there are problems with the Debian mirror
 > sites: mirroring ftp.debian.org is like a pain in the *ss, at least on
 > ftp.ibp.fr.  Either the mirror is not allowed to log in since there are too
 > many people connected and it does not seem to exist any special class for
 > mirror sites (and the people managing Debian don't seem to care), or
 > ftp.debian.org does not work, for example:
 > ftp> cd /debian
 > 250-Please see our web site http://www.debian.org for information on Debian.
 > ...
 > ftp> ls
 > 200 PORT command successful.
 > 425 Can't create data socket (206.139.73.13,20): Address already in use.
 > 
 > 	So, it is very difficult to maintain the Debian mirror (I wish it
 > would be as easy to run it than the Red Hat mirror...).  BTW, I don't care
 > and I'll probably end up removing Debian on ftp.ibp.fr, even if it's a shame
 > since around 10 european sites mirror debian from my site.
 > 
 > > Yves.
 > 
 > 		Remy

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From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 96 16:40 PDT

I asked Simon to give ftp.ibp.fr a mirror login, and he did so within an
hour of my request. Remy should have an easier time now.

	Thanks

	Bruce
--
       Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole.

Bruce Perens AB6YM          [email-masked]            http://www.hams.com/

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From: Michael Shields <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:59:25 +0000

>Incoming are not always quickly moved, we sometimes *have* to get

I'm not mirroring Incoming because I don't want people to try to upload
things there.  If they succeed, they'll think they've done something useful
when they haven't, and if they fail, it looks bad for Debian.

I may be biased because I stick to stable releases and so never have to
pull things from Incoming.

--
Shields, CrossLink.

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From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 16:11:35 -0500 (CDT)

I did respond to Remy (ask Simon for a mirror account, the address
problem was with linux 2.0.1), and Incoming can be mirrored.

Guy