You've Been Slashdotted

You've Been Slashdotted

[Michael D. Crawford]

Even mighty ftp.kernel.org has fallen under the /. effect after they ran the
annoucenement:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/05/0049246&mode=thread

You're probably not going to have much luck getting any source off any servers
tonight.  Might I suggest you pop over to Slashdot and give the clueless some
clues on getting their new kernels working?  They need help.

Mike
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Re: You've Been Slashdotted

[Michael D. Crawford]

I gather from the combination of what I read on Slashdot and what folks replied
here that the mirrors are actually lightly loaded, but Slashdot readers don't
know about them because they couldn't read the home page at
http://www.kernel.org that directed them to the mirror list.

So I posted the algorithm for calculating the URL to your nearest mirror on
Slashdot.  Maybe that'll help some

Mike
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Re: You've Been Slashdotted

[Scott Laird]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> 
> You're probably not going to have much luck getting any source off any servers
> tonight.  Might I suggest you pop over to Slashdot and give the clueless some
> clues on getting their new kernels working?  They need help.

Dunno -- my mirror (ftp-mirror.internap.com, or ftp15.us.kernel.org) is
only seeing 1-2 Mbps worth of traffic, out of 10 Mbps available to it.  I
suspect that a lot of mirrors are similar.


Scott

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