[Nix-dev] cache.nixos.org. mirror

[Nikolay Amiantov]

I went somewhat other way, because I didn't want to put a financial and
maintenance strain on Graham (but I appreciate the offer!) and I'm not
sure how to find out an S3 bucket name.

Instead, I ran this Ruby script to search for unblocked IP addresses:

> require 'resolv'
> require 'socket'
> require 'timeout'
>
> resolv = Resolv::DNS.new
> resolv.each_address "cache.nixos.org" do |address|
>   a_str = address.to_s
>   STDERR.puts "Trying #{a_str}"
>   begin
>     Timeout::timeout 5 do
>       TCPSocket.new a_str, 443
>     end
>     puts a_str
>   rescue Timeout::Error
>     STDERR.puts "Timeout exceeded"
>   end
> end

This resulted in a short list:

54.192.229.192
54.192.229.36

of seemingly good hosts, which can be used by adding them to /etc/hosts.

I suppose that VPN is a better long-term solution, though ~_^.

On 10/24/2016 10:10 AM, zimbatm wrote:
> Does anyone know the name of the S3 bucket that contains the files? The
> bucket itself might not be on the block list.
> 
> Otherwise it might be a good opportunity to try
> IPFS out. It works around the IP block list and also distributes the
> transport costs to all of the users.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, 00:55 Graham Christensen, <graham at grahamc.com
> <mailto:graham at grahamc.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Note this won't require trusting me because the packages will still
>     be signed by upstream.
>     On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 7:38 PM Graham Christensen
>     <graham at grahamc.com <mailto:graham at grahamc.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Looking in to this, I found Hetzner offers 20TB of bandwidth for
>         servers which cost less than € 39.00.
> 
>         I'd be happy to provide a mirror on my personal hetzner machine,
>         but it wouldn't be anything official. If things got over 20TB
>         though I'd need to re-evaluate the offer.
> 
>         I can imagine a need for an official off-cloudfront mirror.
> 
>         Graham

-- 
Nikolay.