I don't mind having people mirror off debian.crosslink.net; it has
lots of capacity. The past problems with debian.crosslink.net not
mirroring correctly, and the underlying problem of my having no time
to fix it, have been resolved. Currently I'm mirroring it over
rsync/ssh to master; but by hand
> Lets ask Andrew to add CHAP like authentication - that will clear my
> complaints. I don't like the idea of IP based authentication, it is weak
> and it is a pain to admin.
Too late --- he's already added it :-)
In the /etc/rsyncd.conf file on the target, you need something like this:
[debia
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, James A.Treacy wrote:
> I've discussed this with Jason and he's against it. He feels that it will be
> too
> much administrative overhead to keep a list of acceptable mirrors. The reason
> we would want to set up restrictions is to prevent just anyone from mirroring
> from
> As quite a number of people are currently using rsync to mirror, is it
> really worth it to make a change?
It's worth at least setting up annon rsync, because it means that the data
does not get run through ssh at each end, thus saving CPU cycles and 10% (or
more) of the bandwidth.
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