Bug 203960 – [rsync] New mirror: ? (South Africa)

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Mirrors

[Description Pieter De Wit 2008-01-01 10:55:57 UTC]

Hi Guys,

I know that you have enough mirrors, but we dont have one in South Africa (.za) I have my server (209.203.20.44, and 196.211.190.150) running a sync server setup as required. I would like to offer this to the gentoo comm. for public use.

Thanks,

Pieter De Wit

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2008-01-01 12:22:42 UTC]

Please include your servers specs and the name you want to be listed as.

Those two IPs you put doesn't work for me, gives time out

[Comment 2 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2008-01-01 12:23:01 UTC]

*** Bug 203962 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Pieter De Wit 2008-01-02 04:19:59 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Please include your servers specs and the name you want to be listed as.
> 
> Those two IPs you put doesn't work for me, gives time out
> 

Hi Raul,

Sorry about that - forgot to open rsync to the public :), they should work 100% for you now. As for the server specs:

P4 HT 2.8Ghz
2gig ram
2x73 gig SCSI (HW mirrored)

The 209.203.20.44 IP is a 1meg (up and down) link to the internet and the 196.211.190.150 is an adsl backup (384k up/4meg down)

As for the name - It really doesnt matter, I was thinking we can just carry on with the rsync.za.gentoo.org domain (in the past you did something like rsync1.za.gentoo.org ?)

Is there any more info you would like ?

Thanks,

Pieter

[Comment 4 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2008-03-01 15:37:29 UTC]

Peter, i'm sorry but according to our policy, you need to have around 7mbps of bandwith.

Thanks for your offer, but we can't add you in.

[Comment 5 Pieter De Wit 2008-03-01 17:10:16 UTC]

Hi Guys,

Thanks - no problem, good luck in finding that in South Africa.

Cheers,

Pieter

[Comment 6 Robin Johnson 2008-03-01 20:54:07 UTC]

Pieter: do you have more bandwidth than that 1Mbit up for destination networks inside South Africa?

[Comment 7 Pieter De Wit 2008-03-01 21:18:10 UTC]

Hey Guys,

Not at the moment, we are looking at upgrading to 2meg soon. To put it this way, South Africa's biggest adsl is 4meg down and I am sure that there isn't that many gentoo users here. I do understand that you need to uphold a policy, but the only people that can do that is the major isps :(

Thanks,

Pieter

[Comment 8 Robin Johnson 2008-03-01 21:31:50 UTC]

Pieter: If a couple of those 4mbit clients hit you at the same time, your 2mbit upstream is going to be completely saturated to the exclusion of your normal traffic is it not?

[Comment 9 Pieter De Wit 2008-03-02 18:55:46 UTC]

Hi Guys,

We are ok with this - we normally use the adsl for "work stuff", the diginet is for email etc. I am not sure if we can figure out how many people are from South Africa and what the traffic would be ? Perhaps you guys have access to those stats ?