How to fix it

Posted Jul 14, 2008 17:30 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (guest, #33263)
In reply to: How to fix it by epa
Parent article: Study: Attacks on package managers

>Indeed, it is strange to even have mirror sites in this day and age when we have Bittorrent.

The next local mirror here (4 hops away according to traceroute) is delivering files faster
than any BT does. Well, that's the purpose of mirrors in the first place...

How to fix it

Posted Jul 14, 2008 21:37 UTC (Mon) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] (1 responses)

Indeed, but if the server admin set up a Bittorrent node instead of a traditional mirror site,
you'd get the same speed by BT.  And I imagine that starting up a Bittorrent client, telling
it to seed URLs x,y,z and use 500Mb/s maximum bandwidth and 500Gbyte maximum disk space is a
lot easier for the server administrator than the traditional 'mirror' script.

How to fix it

Posted Jul 17, 2008 5:02 UTC (Thu) by dirtyepic (guest, #30178) [Link]

in many cases in the time it takes the BT client to contact the tracker, receive the seed/peer
data, and then establish connections to each of these seed/peers, you could have downloaded
the file directly several times over.  and you never get high transfer rates right off the bat
with BT.  It usually takes a few minutes to get up to a decent speed.