DVD sizes

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, John P. Mitchell <john at cepros.com> said:
>    I really do not like the way people here are treating Gene. Could be
> something really going wrong with his client? Maybe we should take
> people at their word and try and help instead? This is the reason I
> have alot of newbies tell me Linux users suck.

What do you want me to say?  I'm the mirror admin for mirror.hiwaay.net.
He is seeing something from my mirror that I do not see (either via
shell or FTP) and he's seeing it from another mirror as well.  The
logical assumption then is that there is a problem at his end.

However, from this I have (I think) discovered a bug in Apache.  I don't
serve the ISOs via HTTP (because Apache tends to do odd things with
large files).  However, if I go to that directory and get the generated
directory listing, it doesn't include the DVD.  I bet Apache is using 32
(or 31) bits for file sizes; at least it just skips the file it can't
handle (instead of crashing).

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.