package distribution crisis - CDN needed

[João Carlos Mendes Luís]

Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> At 11:50 PM +0200 4/7/08, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>> Okay the situation recently was that the mirrors had no chance keeping
>> up with all the package sets I've been uploading to ftp-master.
>>
>> We clearly need to move beyond rsync/cvsup synced ftp mirrors. This
>> does not scale.
>
> Maybe do something more "bit-torrent-y" ?  That seems to scale quite
> well!

Surely a must for CD and DVD images, but not much useful for package 
installation, IMHO.

                                        Jonny

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João Carlos Mendes Luís - Networking Engineer - jonny at jonny.eng.br