What is the problem with the mirrors?

[Ryan Dooley]

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> >It's just not possible to count on that much data synced world-wide if
> >any one of the mirrors can't get any rates.

I knew 300 baud would come back in style ;-)

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> Isn't the solution also simple?
> 
> Give the mirror sites a priority access somehow, or perhaps a private
> master server?

Yup... let the global mirrors talk with a private rsync server with a
username/password combo.

Ryan