Fedora Core 2 Distribution Size

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sun Jan 4 05:25:27 UTC 2004


Gene C. (czar at czarc.net) said: 
> My question is ... why did Red Hat force ftp? ... it certainly seems 
> intentional ... what don't I understand about HTTP, proxy servers, and lare 
> files?

Basically, we've discovered that various 'download accelerator' programs
(that open up 10+ connections with byte ranges) tend to drown out useful
traffic in such a situation. If you try to firewall on multiple connects,
you run into other issues, such as blocking out multiple yum users behind
some sort of NAT firewall.

Bill






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