Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:12:57 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cdrom.com data transfer record Message-ID: <028a01c2869a$112b9670$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> References: <3DCAC7A2.7010409@401.cx>
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From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx> To: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:05 PM Subject: cdrom.com data transfer record > Hi list > > Some time ago I read some kind of announcement or article about > cdrom.com and their FTP archive that broke some kind of record in > amount of data transferred from a single machine in 24 hours. It > even had a link to the ISP that explained about their network and > their part in helping cdrom.com break this record. > I seem to recall that part of what made the FTP archive break > this record was the fact that a new version of Red Hat and > Slackware was released on the same day. IIRC it was Red Hat 6.2, > so it was a while ago. > > Does anyone have a link or reference to the article Im talking > about? www.cdrom.com just redirects me to simtel.net, and I find > absolutely nothing of value there. > > TIA > > -- > R > An anecdote of this type appears in some of the 'historical' material from the earlier days of the FBSD project. Don't know that it's what your looking for, though...... The link is at http://www.freebsd.org/news/press.html in the July 1998 section, but the page it ref's seems to be gone/moved.... Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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