On 10/15/05, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 20:22 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 11:16 +0800, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing > > Lists) wrote: > > > On 10/15/05, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > > > > Is this because the mirrors are busy? I did update to CentOS 4.2 > > > > yesterday but now... > > > > > > > > [root at srv1 file-4.15]# yum install php-devel php-imap > > > > Setting up Install Process > > > > Setting up repositories > > > > dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB > > > > > > < Error messages snipped> > > > > > > > Suggestions? Wait? > > > > > > I myself can't get past the "Setting up repositories stage." > > > > > > BTW, are the ISOs available via bittorrent already? > > ---- > > finally came through after trying about 30 times > > > > but I need another package and it's too painful so I think I will wait > > until later > > > > Guys ... I apologize, but our mirrors are just absolutely maxed out. > > We have served 2.26 TB (bytes not bits) in the last 24 hours ... which > is 5x our normal traffic. > > We are working on a way to use mirrorlist= so that we don't have this > kind of problem in the future. (I know this has it's own issues, but it > is something we need to do) > > We also need more donated mirrors ... if you are an ISP who is making > tons of money using CentOS, we could use a dedicated server donation :) > > There is a list of public, external mirrors that have CentOS as well ... > it is available here that might not have as much traffic: > > http://www.centos.org/mirrors/ > > Otherwise, to use mirror.centos.org, the only possibility is to wait a > day or so more. > Sounds like CentOS has made great strides in polularity. One possibility is that if ISPs notice this, or we let our ISP know, they may setuip a mirrir to minimize their bandwidth usage, read costs. I know many ISPs are struggling. -- Leonard Isham, CISSP Ostendo non ostento.