Im not sure about other ISPs but I know Quicksilver have put something small-scale in place recently. ftp://mirror.qsi.net.nz It was announced in our last newsletter, the idea being to have a mirror of commonly required files housed on a local server. Snap? 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> cd pub 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. total 16 drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 Dec 8 2000 BeOS drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Dec 8 2000 FreeBSD drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 512 Sep 19 21:49 Netscape6 drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 512 Dec 2 03:04 OpenBSD drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 Dec 8 2000 XFree86 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Dec 8 2000 doc drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 8 2000 junk lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24 Dec 10 2000 yippee -> /vol1/mirror/yippee/ftp/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 21 03:45 zebra yippee no longer works.. but the rest seem good to me.. ? Is FTP sufficient or would you want a website interface to go with it? (Theres your maintenance cost...) Mark. At 02:11 12/01/2002 +1300, Michael Hallager wrote:
On Saturday 12 January 2002 13:41, you wrote:
I guess that is precisely why tucows/fileplanet exist. However, I feel it can always be done. Perhaps, one machine with high capacity storage and lots of grunt sitting on the Auckland Peering Exchange :=)
Hi all,
My main webserver sits on the Auckland peering exchange, (Local CBD fibre connection - I commonly get 6 Mbps transfers from other APE connected sites), and is grunty.
If anyone would like to submit me a proposal, offlist, I am willing to consider anything.
If this involves a good percentage of Linux software - well even better... :-)
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