actually,
that sounds like a very good idea.
thats about what I am doing here...
Jason wrote:
>
>
> Perhaps the mirror sites are ALSO having trouble reaching the redhat
> site. Seems plausible, as so many of you with great bandwidth and
> perhaps even scripts to get them seem unable as well...
>
>
> Perhaps someone should suggest to RedHat that they ought to have a
> "Mirror User" login on their site. That is, allow a unique
> username/password to anyone who agrees to provide a full mirror of the
> redhat site to anyone else, free of charge, allowing at least XX (?)
> number of users at once.
>
> RedHat could even verify the integrity of the program by randomly
> attempting to retrieve the head of any given file on their site that
> ought to be mirrored, say, once a week or so. If a machine failed the
> weekly check, their username could then be entered into a checkup
> list, which would attempt to verify a random file at a random time,
> once a day, for the next week ... if the person failed all 7 attempts,
> their mirror login would then be suspended and email sent to the
> mirror site operator and redhat site operator.
>
> Clumbsy, but if current mirrors are operating with something similar
> to "wget", it could dramatically improve things.
>
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