Re: Re: setting up mirrors

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

Pavan K Balellugari [Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:47:19PM -0800]: 

>    Personally, my vote goes to peer-to-peer atleast
> for now. This not a substitute for fullblown FTP
> Mirror, but will solve the problem faster. also we
> could take look at the code or use the opennap &
> related open source products for our purpose.
 
Peer to Peer like napster etc is a bit inefficient in terms of bandwidth etc (I
have seen our DSL at the office get saturated when a bozo opened about 15
napster sessions overnight on his PC when we were trying to upload a rather
large Oracle database) :)

Also, especially given the tendency of the public to blindly trust what they
are getting (without even running md5sum on the tarball, most likely), having
such peer to peer download thingies is likely to provide a great way to sneak
in trojans and other assorted nastiness, which would run happily as root.

> So if you guys need any coding help, count me in & for
> R&D also.
 
It is a great idea though - but please consider the above stuff.  If file
sharing is all there is, Gnutella or something similar would do the job great.

> So what do u guys say??
 
Go to it :)

	--suresh