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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

AFAI CERN has private cluster using Ceph that has an S3 api but its not
AWS. It's also not as simple as creating a torrent because there still
needs to be a primary seed server.

On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 6:23 PM Andrew Lutsenko <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 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> 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...
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Marco Ciampa
>>
>> I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.
>>
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Mark