[mirror-admin] ISO best practice FTP?

[Carsten Otto]

Dear Brian,

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 02:38:49PM -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> It used to be best practice to use an Apache RewriteRule to redirect all
> .iso downloads on a Mirror to FTP.  Do people still recommend this or
> are you allowing Apache to serve up the ISOs directly?

I am not aware of this practice being used, although I heard about it.
The reason might have been the inability to handle files bigger than
2 GByte, which should not be any problem nowadays. On
ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de (serving roughly 2 GBit/sec on average) we
only have very little FTP traffic, the main traffic is done using HTTP
(nginx, not Apache).

Best regards,
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Carsten Otto           otto at informatik.rwth-aachen.de
LuFG Informatik 2      http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/
RWTH Aachen            phone: +49 241 80-21211
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