Re: Linux mirrors in India ?

[Biju Chacko <biju@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:37:21PM +0000, Prakash Advani wrote:
>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??

Hi,

It's a little unrealistic to expect ISPs to sponsor this kind of thing. They
don't stand to gain anything by doing this. I think it is more the duty of
companies that have an interest in the spread of linux that should sponsor a
mirror.

In the meanwhile checkout ftp://sunsite.ernet.in


Biju

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