Red Hat servers (was Re: [TriLUG] Fw: WinXP vs RH 7.2)

Brian Daniels bitmage at bellsouth.net
Fri Nov 2 16:53:48 EST 2001


On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:24:38PM -0800, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> What exactly isn't updated there?  It (supposedly) syncs nightly at 1am
> or thereabouts.

RedHat has a bunch of 7.2 errata that came out last night/this am.
> 
> Also, there's always ftp://kickstart.linux.ncsu.edu as well, which
> mirrors even more regularly.

Aha!  That one is up-to-date, and fast.  Thanks!
Ahhh...170K/sec feels much better :-)


> > Hmm.  Pinging ftp.redhat.com is showing loss:
> > 62 packets transmitted, 44 packets received, 29% packet loss
> > round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 215.175/255.978/307.510/15.481 ms
> 
> Which of the ftp.redhat.com's is that? :)   The 63.240.14.x addresses
> tend to do a lot better in my experience.  But the ftp sites are still

63.240.14.64 

Thanks again for that mirror pointer!

--Brian "might even get this done before I go home" Daniels


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