Fedora Core 2 Distribution Size
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Jan 3 16:20:06 UTC 2004
> In general, http is "encouraged" for downloading of updates and individual
> packages for FC (up2date also uses it). To me this makes lots of sense since
> the various proxy servers in the network can do a much better job of load
> balancing than running multiple ftp servers with rotating access via dns.
>
> However, I noticed that when the ISOs are downloaded, ftp is forced. Is there
> some reason for this. I would think that the same load balancing logic that
> applied for packages would also ally to the ISO images.
ftp is forced? forced from where? You can download the iso images from
the duke mirror, for example, via http.
-sv
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