On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:12:30AM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > While we're at it, I found that mirrors often shut the connection down > in the middle due to too frequent accesses (purported DoS attacks) > while running pkg_add -ui. Maybe one can take a leaf out of Debian's > book about package management and download only lists of packages from > any one mirror, and later get the files in a second run, but all in one > go. No, because we need more than list of package names, we also need some internals.
Such mirrors are bogus, we go to great pains to make sure we don't open more than one connection at once, this is not the web and phpbb, ftp mirrors should be able to deal with that if they've got sysadmins over 18 years old.
