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Better FTP mirror in Israel (was: Re: your mail)




On Sun, 5 Nov 1995, Gili Granot wrote:

> I am trying to setup an Israeli mirror of the anonymous ftp archive
> at sunsite.unc.com:/pub/Linux .
> 
> At the last meeting I was told that the CS department at huji will
> agree to host the mirror, and the huji branch of sunsite may also
> be willing.
> The catch is that they both will not donate the disk needed, so we
> need to get a 2Gb SCSI disk to setup the mirror.
> 
> We either need to find a donation or to collect money for it.
> 
> I welcome comments about this.

The first thought which sprang to my mind is the problem that MACHBA may 
block access to the new FTP site by Israeli companies and persons, who do 
not belong to the .ac.il domain - just as they block access to the 
Technion FTP site.

Besides, a FTP site needs not only disk space but also a connection of 
sufficient bandwidth to handle the FTP traffic.  Does cs.huji have the 
bandwidth to handle the new FTP site?

Otherwise, it may be a good idea to try to arrange with one of the 
commercial Internet providers in Israel to sponsor a big FTP site to 
mirror several FTP sites from abroad.  Maybe a consortium of several 
Israeli Internet providers.  The financing from the new site will be (if 
possible) from savings thanks to reduced FTP traffic to abroad.  
Especially if it is possible to configure this site to be also a big WWW 
proxy cache for the co.il and org.il domains of the Internet.
                                            --- Omer
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