Re: [Mldonkey-users] FYI: News from savannah.nongnu.org

[Leif Sandstede]

On Saturday March 8 2003 12:31, Lionel Bouton wrote:
> Michael Panteleit wrote:
> >Just read the following news from their homepage:
> >
> >Server exhausted, mldonkey clients charged
> >    yeupou - Fri 03/07/03 at 05:27 - 2 messages
> >
> >The Savannah server is currently exhausted because hundred of mldonkey
> >clients are trying to download differents files as servers-list or
> >motd (server.met, motd.html, motd.conf, peers.ocl).
>
> Verified. I juste removed the .met and .ocl from savannah (there were
> alternatives in my downloads.ini), but "network_update_url" is still
> hardcoded in latest CVS to
> network_update_url =
> "http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/mldonkey/network/";
>
> Anyone knows a mirror ?
It is a nice idea but it does not always work for me anyway so I would not 
mind if it would be removed. 
That said I do not think the svannah people would mind one request per client 
per day we would just have to make sure that it is not more often another ini 
or addition to downloads.ini would be nice I think.
It should store the last date the info was updated and the currently availible 
and the version of mldonkey with wich it was updated so it can be compared 
with the version of mldonkey currently used. That way you can make sure you 
always have the newest info but do not hammer the site too much.
What is updated with that info anyway? Serverlist and version info?
Does the server propagation add to this problem too?
Anyway update once a day is enough in any case.(servers on dynamic ip are bad 
anyway and should be sorted out)

Leif