Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:47:20 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel |
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Russell King wrote: > > Ergo, downloads via http from ftp.uk.kernel.org are at best unreliable > for multiple requests. > > I agree that it's not directly your problem, and isn't something you > have direct control over. However, if you want to round-robin the > <cc>.kernel.org IP addresses between different providers, I suggest > that either the name resolves to just one site, or that kernel.org > adopts a policy with their mirrors that they only become part of > the <cc>.kernel.org DNS entries as long as they do not rewrite their > site-specific URLs in terms of that address. >
Indeed. I just sent a complaint about this, and if we can figure out a decent way to test for this automatically we'll add it to our automatic tests.
There is also always ftp.
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