[lug] RH 8.0 mirrors

[Neal McBurnett]

After some direct experience with these and others, here is my current
ranking of how many retries it took "ncftp" to log in, and how fast
the transfers were to these relatively close (fast ping) hosts:

good, 340 kB/s: ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/redhat/8.0/ 
easy in, 300 kB/s: ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/8.0/
busy, 60-80 kB/s: ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/8.0/ 
easy in, 20 kB/s: ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/redhat/8.0/
timeout on login: ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/redhat/redhat/linux/8.0/
no openings: ftp://chuck.ucs.indiana.edu/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/linux/8.0/ 

It is nice to do these downloads over the Internet2 backbone - 30
minutes for each iso image.

But most importantly, I gave up on the last two - couldn't log in
for a long time.

-Neal

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:09:48PM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> The list at http://freshrpms.net/mirrors/psyche.html
> is better than the one at redhat, which still refers to
> the 7.3 release and old sites.
> 
> These are the mirrors from that list that were closest to CU via ping:
> 
>  ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/redhat/redhat/linux/8.0/
>  ftp://chuck.ucs.indiana.edu/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/linux/8.0/
>  ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/redhat/8.0/
>  ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/8.0/
> 
> But they're all really busy....
> 
> Neal McBurnett                 http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/
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> 
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:12:44PM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:36:53PM -0600, luke p wrote:
> > >I'm wondering if anyone has some good links (more local the better) for 
> > >downloading the ISO's for the new RH 8.0? I did try that tummy link, but 
> > >they don't seem to have the ISO's up anywhere.
> > 
> > Our mirror is pretty fully committed, and if you went to the main site
> > instead of mirrors.tummy.com you wouldn't find them anyway.
> > 
> > Kevin is going to have the ISOs with him Thursday at the Hacking Society
> > meeting, which may be your best bet for getting them quickly.  On a local
> > 100mbps network, it takes about 4 minutes per ISO to download them.
> > 
> > Sean
> > -- 
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> >                  -- Sean Reifschneider, 2000
> > Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
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