A lot of mirrors do this anyways. ISO's are big files, HTTP wasn't made to move big files. Most people do this just so the user has a better chance of the download completing successfully. On 11/25/2009 6:10 PM, Pär Andersson wrote: > Mogens Kjaer<mk at crc.dk> writes: > >> Redirecting http requests to ftp solved the problem: >> > Is this really ok on a CentOS mirror? In the mirror list it says that > you support HTTP but with this config that is not true for ISOs. > > For most people this probably makes no difference, but there are > networks where stupid NAT and/or firewalls lets you access HTTP but not > FTP. > > I limit the amount of connections/IP to 2 for the ISOs instead, this > seems to work quite ok against download accelerators. > > -- > Pär Andersson > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20091125/57bdaa84/attachment-0006.html>