[plug] rsync mirrors

[Paul Day]

On 28 Sep 2002, William Kenworthy wrote:
> someone mentioned that to check if planetmirror is going through a low
> cost path when rsyncing, do a traceroute and look for "waix" in the
> path.  Or was that "waia"?
>
> I traceroute'd two IP's given by host www.planetmirror.com and both go
> through waia (from iinet), not waix.

That's a dodgey way of doing it seeing the data might be routing
back in via a paid transit link (this is the case with ISPs who use
Swiftel/Commindico for transit. They get to Commindico across WAIX,
Commindico route back to them down their paid transit link).

But either way, planetmirror.com is now hosted by Optus, which isn't (yet
;) peered with WAIX so it'll be a paid link regardless.

WAIX IPs are good - every file leacher should have some. :) Speaking of
which, a paprticular ISP in QV1 have started offering unlimitted-traffic
WAIX-IPed colos for (from memory) $50/month for 2RU and $70 for 4RU. Seems
to be proving popular with the WAIX-file sharing users.

PD

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