[ale] RedHat and its mirrors

[JANINDRA at MS.NDCORP.COM]

(You're preaching to the choir)

I have recently written a script that checks the RH ftp site for updates on
a regular basis. The problems I have encountered are as follows:

RH decided to consolidate everything to one server (i.e rawhide, updates,
etc -> ftp.redhat.com). They continued to update the separate servers while
the main server lacked updates. Despite what they advertise, the most
up-to-date server is updates.redhat.com. 

On a side note (especially for the conspiracy buffs), I believe RH lowered
that anon FTP access to one user at a time. This causes frustration for
people trying to get updates and eventually leads then to waiting for RH 6.1
or whatever to come out, so they can BUY it on CD. 

On the other side, if I can generate enough interest I plan on handling the
"subscription" idea by publishing RH Quarterly Update CD's (professionally
done of course). These are not the OFFICIAL RH CD, but files taken from the
RH server and burnt to CD (don't want any RH lawyers on me ;) ).

--Randy

-----Original Message-----
 From: Michael A. Smith [mailto:masmith at bsat.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 8:16 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] RedHat and its mirrors


	Anyone know what's going on with the RedHat
sites?(updates.redhat.com,
ftp.redhat.com)  I have been trying to ftp to these sites for three days and
there have been too many users logged in.....even at 3:00am in the morning.
I think RedHat is having some serious growth issues. I can't even get into
many of the mirror sites(ftp.alpha1.net).  Sorry about the venting but this
is irritating.  Maybe RedHat should have a subscription program similar to
some other un-named corporation.  Anyway, I apologize for the vent......