Current bandwidth utilization 90.85 Mbit/s

ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
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1 What does this server offer?
2 What hardware is used?
3 What network connectivity is used?
4 Who is responsible for this server?
5 When is the data synchronized?

1 What does this server offer?
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/apache           -   Apache Software Foundation
/centos           -   CentOS
/opensuse         -   Most requested 160 GB 
/packman          -   Packman package repository, without opensuse 10.1 and 10.2
/backtrack	  -   Backtrack security and penetration testing distribution
/ubuntu-releases   -   Ubuntu CD releases

Feel free to suggest other data to mirror. 
The data is accessible via HTTP and FTP at the addresses


	http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de

and
	ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de

2 What hardware is used?
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Sun Fire V20z
Dual Opteron 250
12 GB DDR-RAM
Intel Gigabit network cards

2 x Sun T3 Disk Systems

These systems are items of loan by Rechen- und Kommunikationszentrum der RWTH Aachen
(http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de).

3 What network connectivity is used?
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This system is directly connected to the RWTH Aachen University
(www.rwth-aachen.de) using a dedicated gigabit link. The university
has an uplink of 10 GBit/sec to the "Deutsches Forschungsnetz" (DFN),
called X-WiN.

4 Who is responsible for this server?
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At the moment the following two students maintain this system. Feel free to
contact us with questions or suggestions.

Hendrik Fabelje
Carsten Otto
			ftp@halifax.rwth-aachen.de

5 When is the data synchronized?
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/apache          6h      rsync://rsync.apache.org::apache-dist
/centos          4h      rsync://eu-msync.centos.org::CentOS
/opensuse	 4h	 rsync://stage.opensuse.org/opensuse-hotstuff-160gb
/packman 	 1h	 rsync://packman.mirrors.skynet.be/packman/
/ubuntu-releases 2h	 rsync://rsync.releases.ubuntu.com/releases