Comments on: Mirrors are Awesome http://kubasik.net/blog/2007/03/05/mirrors-are-awesome/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mirrors-are-awesome Kevin Kubasik's Personal Blog Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:28:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: ant http://kubasik.net/blog/2007/03/05/mirrors-are-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-34 ant Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:00:00 +0000 http://kubasik.net/blog/2007/03/05/mirrors-are-awesome/#comment-34 You can list all the mirrors in a .metalink (XML) file. This is used by download programs to try available mirrors. If the master servers are not listed (or given a lower priority) it will spread the load between mirrors. opensuse used this method for the 10.2 release and the master servers did not go down. People have been using this unofficially to download the Ubuntu isos for a while from http://download.packages.ro/metalink/ubuntu/ More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/metalink-iso-downloads You can list all the mirrors in a .metalink (XML) file. This is used by download programs to try available mirrors. If the master servers are not listed (or given a lower priority) it will spread the load between mirrors. opensuse used this method for the 10.2 release and the master servers did not go down.

People have been using this unofficially to download the Ubuntu isos for a while from http://download.packages.ro/metalink/ubuntu/

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/metalink-iso-downloads

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