I've been maintaining the primary NZ Redhat (and now Whitebox and Fedora) mirror for several years in its various guises and it really doesn't take that much effort. Once it is set up properly (that takes a bit of experience mind you) rsync and logwatch pretty much do 98% of the work. It usually is happy with 10 meg of bandwidth (averaging between 1 and 3 most of the time) but likes to peak at 35meg or so during release times if you let it. Ive always either worked for or had access to a friendly ISP that isn't using some outgoing bandwith that could get dontated to the cause. (its been ftp.redhat.co.nz then ftp.isl.net.nz and now its ftp.wicks.co.nz cuz I pretty much pay for the hardware myself, but putting something back to the community keeps the balance imho) Alastair Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Nicholas Lee wrote:
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 03:10:43PM +1300, Michael Jager wrote:
what the end user pays for it, etc. They just want their apt-get to work when they say they're in New Zealand.
Maybe Maxnet is willing to offer a NZ-wide connected trust-worthy debian mirror? I used debian.win.co.nz when it was around.
We would have no problem providing rack space and domestic transit for a mirror machine. The problem is, nobody here has the time to maintain it, and one of the biggest gripes I've seen is that "all the other mirrors lag or aren't maintained".
It could conceivably be something we do in the future.
regards
aj