[CentOS-devel] Possible additional distribution vectors

Thu Mar 1 09:42:30 UTC 2007
Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>

Daniel Clark wrote:
> I was having a conversation with z00dax on IRC, and the suggestion was
> made that I post about this to the mailing list:
> 
> CoBlitz is a nifty free distribution service for large files over
> http, that utilizes PlanetLab's network of hundreds of machines to
> provide bittorrent (or better)-like speeds while offering many of the
> advantages of bittorrent (less stress on mirror sites).
> 
> The website is:
> http://codeen.cs.princeton.edu/coblitz/

So I take it they are using their own mirrors and aren't distributing
the load over existing mirrors like Metalink
<http://www.metalinker.org/> does?

Cheers,

Ralph
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