Jim Perrin wrote: >> Does this mean you don't wish to create a workable mirror system? > > > Just because it doesn't fit into how you think it should work doesn't > mean it's not workable. Stop trolling. > I'm not trolling, I pointed out a serious problem with it and suggest how it could be improved. I repeat, mirrors in Europe & the US are not local to Western Australia, and while Singapore is relatively close, still data crosses national boundaries; while I don't understand the implications of that, I am sure it doesn't have the same costs & rules that data-flows within Austealia have. The fact that users get their data doesn't mean the mirror system is working well from their perspectice. I also made the point that speed measurements from users' machines don't mean much in terms of the distance, or of the performance of the download over time. Since I wrote, a download that I started this morning at 100 KBytes/sec has since slowed to 12 Kbytes/sec or so. I've just done a quick check, there is actually a Centos mirror here in Perth: it's on WAIX, but you don't list it. it's even got 4.4 in it. Not only, but including: lftp ftp.iinet.net.au:/pub/centos/4.4> dir os/s390x/ ---> PASV <--- 227 Entering Passive Mode (203,59,27,132,191,167). ---- Connecting data socket to (203.59.27.132) port 49063 ---> LIST os/s390x/ <--- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list ---- Closing data socket drwxr-xr-x 4 0 root 4096 Mar 26 10:46 CentOS <--- 226-Transfer complete. <--- 226 Quotas off -rw-r--r-- 2 0 root 18009 Jul 7 2005 GPL -rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 192 Mar 24 17:52 RELEASE-NOTES -rw-r--r-- 4 0 root 1795 Jul 7 2005 RPM-GPG-KEY -rw-r--r-- 4 0 root 1795 Jul 7 2005 RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 root 4096 Oct 8 2005 SRPMS -rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 112 Mar 24 21:15 generic.ins drwxr-xr-x 2 0 root 61440 May 8 17:24 headers drwxr-xr-x 2 0 root 4096 Mar 26 10:46 images drwxr-xr-x 2 0 root 4096 Mar 26 10:46 repodata -rw-r--r-- 2 0 root 537152 Mar 24 17:07 yumgroups.xml lftp ftp.iinet.net.au:/pub/centos/4.4> I think it's also accessible by rsync (I've been getting some Debian from there by rsync) and http. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ Please do not reply off-list