Am 25.09.09 20:08, schrieb Marten Lehmann: > Now I'm in doubt wether I should make our own mirror public or not. > > The first and main issue are the bandwidth costs. Can you give an > estimate on how much traffic a typical European/German mirror generates > per month? http://centos.bio.lmu.de/mrtg/141.84.43.23_141.84.43.22.html This is a german mirror, offering rsync, http and ftp, all isos including DVD. The lack of traffic you can see in July was a config problem :) > The second issue is, that some kiddies might try to attack and hack our > mirror to inject changed packages. Do you have statistics on this? Which > FTP daemon do you recommend for a hardened anonymous-FTP only service? I use vsftpd with anonymous access only - and anonymous can only read. > Btw.: What do I have to change in the yum config on each server to use > one specific repository server and not the mirrorlist system? Do I just > have comment the mirrorlist line and uncomment the baseurl? Yes, as the yum.conf manual page explains in length :) Ralph