From owner-freebsd-java Fri Aug 7 13:49:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19688 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:49:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19594; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:48:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA23814; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 14:48:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA21096; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 14:48:30 -0600 Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 14:48:30 -0600 Message-Id: <199808072048.OAA21096@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Wolfram Schneider Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG, jordan@FreeBSD.ORG, dg@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving java files from web server to ftp server In-Reply-To: <199808071902.VAA21066@campa.panke.de> References: <199808071902.VAA21066@campa.panke.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The /java/ directory at www.freebsd.org/java/ create every day 35% of > the total web traffic, thats 500-600MB/day. Wow, that's *great*. :) :) > Some *.tar.gz files are > very large, 5-12MB each. HTTP is the wrong protocol for transfering > large data, e.g. it does not support the 'reget' function. Can we move > the large files to the FTP server ftp.freebsd.org? A number of folks have been asking for this, but I'm in no position to give out ftp access to myself on wcarchive. David? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message