Re: Linux mirrors in India ?

["Ruchir Tewari" <ruchir_tewari@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've written to a few ISPs, though have'nt heard
back from them yet. This is a catch 22 - the more
popular the free software is, the more bandwidth
saving they'll have. But to make it more popular,
we need some meaningful free download sites.

I'd recommend that other interested people in this
list also write to some of the ISPs (without spamming,
of course). The argument to give them is
more content == more demand == more customers.
Larger content cached locally by the ISP
means that the ISP can provide that content to its
customers without using the uplink bandwidth from
the network carrier. The cost of setting up a few
servers of say 10 Gb for downstream bandwidth is
really small compared to the benefits the ISP gets.
Sooner or later, some of them will see the light.

One good side-effect of having large content locally
available is that it will apply pressure to upgrade
local connectivity in India. Right now most of
the fat pipes require you to traverse the network all
the way to the U.S. and back, which is dumb.
For e.g, I could easily access the IITM mirror, from
here in California, whereas folks in India are having
a hard time.

So do go ahead and ask your ISPs to host the free
software sites. The more copies the better for you,
for the ISPs and for connectivity in India. The less
copies, the better for international carriers at the
cost of Indian ISPs.

- Ruchir



From: Prakash Advani <prakash@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: ruchir@xxxxxxx
CC: linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [LIG] Linux mirrors in India ?

Sender: linux-india-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

We are interested in setting up a mirror but want someone to sponsor the
bandwidth. We spoke to a few ISP's including VSNL but they don't seem to
understand how much of International bandwidth they would save. Instead
they want to charge us a few millions on bandwidth cost alone.

Ideally such a server should host all the linux, open source, free
operating system downloads with binaries, source and CVS updated every
6-12 hours.. this will ensure that things are updated.

Can anyone convince some ISP??

Regards
Prakash
Ruchir Tewari wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> has anyone attempted setting up mirrors for linux
> software in India itself for sites like kernel.org,
> sourceforge.com and rpmfind.net ?
>
> the www.kernel.org mirror for india (www.in.kernel.org)
> is a machine located in belgium. the others don't have
> mirrors, but sourceforge has a note which is attached
> below.
>
> if someone has tried this, what have been the problems ?
>
> if not, maybe we could convince some of the indian ISPs to do
> the job ?
>
> regards,
> - Ruchir
>
> ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/
>
> ********************************************************************
> SourceForge.net/OSDN FTP server - Boston (ftp2.sourceforge.net)
> Current Anonymous Users: 253 out of 750 maximum.
> Additional access is at http://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/
>
> Got a fat pipe and something to prove? Host a SourceForge download
>    server! Email dtype@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for opportunities.
> This machine is a Dual PIII 850Mhz, 2GB RAM, 1.5TB on a Mylex
>    ExtremeRAID Controller, switched gigabit to Exodus Boston.
> Mirrors, try 'rsync download.sourceforge.net::'
>
> On This Site:
> /debian/                   Debian GNU/Linux
> /pub/mirrors/              Mirrors Archive
> /pub/mirrors/iso/          ISO9660 (CDROM) Image Archive
> /pub/sourceforge/          SourceForge.net Project File Archive
> /pub/suse/                 SuSE Linux
> /pub/yellowdog/            Yellow Dog Linux for PowerPC & RS/6000
> *********************************************************************
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