Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?

• From: Steven M. Bellovin
• Date: Tue Jun 17 14:44:14 2008

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On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:19:19 -0700
Joel Jaeggli <[email protected]> wrote:

> that said the p2p client does rule out needing to select a mirror
> that has free slots during a flash crowd.

As Mozilla is learning today:
http://www.techspot.com/news/30486-mozilla-sites-die-shortly-after-download-day-begins.html


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

• References:
  • P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!? Netfortius
  • Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!? Joel Jaeggli

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