Re: Re: setting up mirrors

[Pavan K Balellugari <pavkb@xxxxxxxxx>]

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--- Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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) :)
> 

 for huge files p2p is the worst. but for patchs &
upgrades it quite usefull.

> 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.
> 

 this i guess could happen from anywhere. Code
obtained from anywhere is unsafe. P2P might give
another vehicle for this, but i guess could be
avoided. Also, i am quite confident with Linux
Security.

> > 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.
> 
  i guess currently Gnutella & other open source P2P
s/w doesn't give u resume or segmented download
support. I was suggesting that we could see if we
could add more code.. just a try..


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


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