If you have to choose just one method of distribution, then sure,
torrents are not the best.
But there is absolutely no reason to stay away from them since there
is no such limitation, we can have both mirrors and magnet links. Good
portion of tech savy people will choose p2p download because it is
guaranteed to saturate your connection for any reasonably popular
torrent. And it works well on release day.
On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 6:33 PM Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Mirrors are better. Torrents are either not allowed on some
networks or people don't know how to use them or don't care to
install the required software, some of which is not malware/ad-free.
So my suggestion is to stay away from torrents.
On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 3:23 PM Andrew Lutsenko
<anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I think torrents are the best solution.
Even when servers function normally on each release there is a
stampede to download new binary and things slow down to a
crawl. I don't know if moving to CERN servers (AWS
servers?) will help but torrents certainly would.
It's as simple as creating a torrent with openbittorrent.com
<http://openbittorrent.com> tracker or even just a magnet link
relying on DHT.
I can help script this if needed.
On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 10:32 AM Marco Ciampa
<ciampix@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ciampix@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 01:22:39PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh
wrote:
> Thanks. If we are having issues with the CERN download
speeds (although
> it is not entirely evident that is the issue) it would
be good to have
> alternate mirrors for users to try if they are having
issues with the
> main download server.
Why not adding torrent seeds like done for the Ubuntu iso
images or
Libreoffice binary files? We must have a torrent tracker
somewhere and
that should offload servers and should solve the peak
download problems
if any...
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