On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 10:53:10 -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | There is nothing "directly" about ftp.debian.org. It's a mirror like any > | other. (The master site is master.debian.org, which is only accessible > | to developers) > > So what level is ftp.debian.org? If only developers have access to > master.debian.org that means all the other mirrors are rooted somewhere > else.
Well, it's not really "developers only", more like "internal". Several of the mirrors, including ftp.debian.org, mirror off master. I'm not sure about the precise details; some of them are "push" mirrors, meaning they start mirroring after receiving a signal from master (which is sent out when uploads on master have been processed). Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
