On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, <rford at candis.com.cn> wrote: > To: "Mailing list for CentOS mirrors." <centos-mirror at centos.org> > > Yeah - (hostrino) and the mirror in fujian are both damn pathetic. > Speed into Beijing is at best 30-40k/sec. > > Between my servers in HK and Beijing on the direct CNC-HK gateway I > get 5-600 k/sec. > > The hostrino one is also next to useless during business hours from > the mainland. And the be10 one on fujian is always useless. > > RF. > > > On 17/11/2006, at 7:44 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > >> Richard Ford wrote: >>> I can't even check that out..... damn China international >>> gateway! I could be doing this sync for weeks! >>> If only I had more space on my HK servers, I could reroute my >>> sync via there and be done in 6 hours. :-\ >>> Oh well. Pain now for sheer convenience for myself and others >>> here later..... >> >> I thought we had a mirror in HK who offered a rsync target... I have 2 suggestions: 1) since your HK server has better connectivity, by all means tunnel through it for your initial sync. Some possible options for this are: * through an ssh tunnel. eg, ssh -L 8873:remote_mirror:873 your_hk_server, followed by rsync [switches] --port=8873 localhost::<rsynctarget> * through a tcp redirector. eg, iptables prerouting dnat or a usermode app like redir * through a vpn, etc. 2) I will soon have to restrict my mirror to limited geographical regions, but for now you may still have some luck with syncing from my mirror. (I know I've achieved > 1MB/s to well connected hosts in China, but your mileage may vary). You may choose from mirror.averse.net::centos (excluding dvds) or mirror.averse.net::centos-incdvd (including dvds, obviously)