Re: Linux mirrors in India ?

[Prakash Advani <prakash@xxxxxxxxxx>]

They will save on bandwidth going out of their network, which is like an
added bonus specially for VSNL which has maximum number of Users
connected either directly or indirectly through other ISP's.

Do you know in the US ISP's don't pay anything to each other for
bandwidth? they only pay for connectivity charges. VSNL is paying
through its nose for bandwidth because the traffic is only one way. (in
bound) and almost no outbound traffic.

Regards
Prakash

Biju Chacko wrote:
> 
> 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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