Fedora Mirrors Wanted

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:00:02PM +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> But you should ensure that Fedora project checks that new mirrors have
> at least 25 Mbps connection. For instance, the mirrors mirror.wbut.ac.in
> is very slow. As you know that some speed is lost in the distance the
> data has to cover. This mirror is located in West-Bengal, North-East of
> India. I am living in Maharashtra, South-West of India. The distance
> would be around 3000+ Kms. I get a speed of 4.5-7 Kbps speed on my 128
> Kbps connection with these mirrors while with any other US/Eur Mirror, I
> get 15-30 Kbps.

We have very few mirrors in India to begin with.  While we generally
request mirrors have 100Mbit or faster connections, we will make
exceptions for areas where we have few mirrors and where we have had
little luck finding volunteers to run faster ones.

Matching users to mirrors based on country isn't perfect, and I'm
always open to better algorithms.  I recently added a lookup for
clients and mirrors connected via Internet2 or one of its peers.  If
someone can describe how to better guess the network topology, exactly
for cases such as yours, I'm all ears.

Thanks,
Matt
Fedora Mirror Wrangler

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
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