new porstnap mirror

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 04:35:10PM +0100, Juraj Lutter wrote:
> Dimitar Vasilev wrote:
>>>     
>> I'm located in Bulgaria and to be honest one user asked.
>> So far my regular patients are a news agency, 2-3 private hospitals, some
>> Turkish government servers, 2-3 telcos
>> and the regular FBSD bunch - 100-200 local people plus the various stray
>> bunch from around the world.
>> We will see how it goes.
> 
>  Just my $0.02, I often install machines in local offices connected via 
> 1-to-2 Mbps ADSL lines and fetching snapshot at speed like 100kB/s is not 
> really good to look at ;-)

On an internal network it's possible to have a single machine do the
fetch and then share /var/db/portsnap via read-only nfs.  This will be
much more bandwidth efficent than maintaining an actual mirror.

-- Brooks
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