[mirror-admin] IITM Mirror, India.

[susmit shannigrahi]

> wow! you have access to the response codes received by most of the clients
> countrywide? and i thought i had to be running webalizer or something on
> the server end to do this ... :-)

No, I have managed the first indian fedora mirror (mirror.wbut.ac.in)
for one and a half year, and spent a hours with webalizer and awstat
stats, so I am pretty confident about how a mirror can behave in
India. :)


> ftp.iitm.ac.in is a heavily used mirror and there is no other such service
> (yet) anywhere else in india.

And a bit clarification, ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ is also a serving
fedora mirror, and
till a few months ago, mirror.wbut.ac.in was another (which is now dead.)


> we are recording
> about 10 million hits a month and about half of these are getting 503's.

So, without access to webalizer data, I predicted it correctly. :)


> if i increase the connection limit, sure, we will get fewer 503's, but
> download speeds will go down for all users - to below dialup speed. if
> there is collective wisdom that this is preferable, i will consider
> changing this.

You are getting me wrong, I faced the same problem of bandwidth, mad
hits, repeated iso downloads and other in much more acute form. I
wasn't suggesting any changes, I was just notifying in case the
current admins of iitm mirror has missed this issue.

Thanks.




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Susmit.

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