[CentOS-mirror] Mirroring Release of CentOS 5 Beta

Fri Mar 9 14:57:41 UTC 2007
Richard Ford <rford at candis.com.cn>

Also - China connections suck.

Can you add 203.86.232.122 which is one of my servers in HK.

I will do initial sync to there and then pull into Beijing and all  
subsequent ones will come direct from BJ.

Cheers,
RF.


On 9 Mar 2007, at 8:55 PM, Lance Davis wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Richard Ford wrote:
>
>> G'Day Lance,
>>
>> I am not questioning your design goals or requirements.
>>
>> But it took me having to read many response to get a grip as to what
>> is what.  The fact that others may be able to do this with less
>> reading or more time hacking, is not an idigtment of my competency.
>> The art of good communication is brevity, accuracy and timeliness.
>>
>> I am not trying to score points here, but next time a major effort is
>> needed, maybe the "thought writing" and desires are popped into a
>> text editor first and re-read before going out in email - as opposed
>> to writing as it is thought of direct to email.
>>
>> Anyway, I still don't know if I need a seperate IP - but I will
>> assign one in any case.
>>
>> URL:	centos-beta.candishosting.com.cn
>> IP:		211.157.103.176
>
> I have set you up for access
>
> Regards
> Lance
>>
>> Cheers,
>> RF.
>>
>>
>> On 9 Mar 2007, at 4:44 AM, Lance Davis wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Richard Ford wrote:
>>>
>>>> So you want us to provide RSYNC services too?
>>>>
>>>> That is - if I only run HTTP now - I also have to offer and RSYNC
>>>> server as well?
>>>>
>>>> This can be done, not sure of the logic - but will use more of  
>>>> my CPU
>>>> cycles.
>>>>
>>>> Do we have to provide a free IP on a virtual host or just a virtual
>>>> host?  No matter if I use one, two, three or more aliased IP's on
>>>> physical server - I always do stuff like this as a vhost for better
>>>> accounting.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps the centos beta stuff can be more clearly, simply and
>>>> precisely explained as opposed to a dribble of half expressed  
>>>> emails
>>>> and equally self serving responses - busy people really don't have
>>>> time to work out what others are trying to say or how one persons
>>>> experiences carry over to themselves.  Maybe some filtering and
>>>> formatting between brain and fingers/keyboard?  Think of it as a
>>>> requirements specification, even some rudimentary UML or use cases
>>>> with event/actions would help, seriously!
>>>>
>>>> Failing that, I would settle for a coherent paragraph of the Queens
>>>> English and a clear technical requirement spec.
>>>
>>> I am sorry that you are disappointed with the request  others have
>>> managed to make sense of it and comply.
>>>
>>> If you do not want to provide rsync access fine, but your mirror
>>> will not be able to be a part of beta.centos.org.
>>>
>>> The whole point is that all the machines that are mapped on to that
>>> behave similarily, otherwise it would cause no end of problems for
>>> end users.
>>>
>>> Lance
>>>
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