Re: how to mirror miktex?

Hi Christian,

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 7:15 AM, Christian Schenk <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have reports that a CTAN mirror in country "XXX" actively blocks
> downloads by country "YYY" users. For political and/or religious
> reasons. I don't know. The mirror in "XXX" is not used by the update
> wizard.
>

I do know several mirror operator in Malaysia are blocking access from
certain country due to excessive hacking attempt. The goal of a mirror to
provide access to user in that country, so when too many hacking attempt
from a particular country, it is logical to block that country, in order to
provide service to legitimate user inside the country of the mirror.

But, I don't really care about the motives of the mirror admin. What I do
care is, with this exclusion policy, you are not actually punishing the
mirror operator, but in reality, you are punishing miktex user in that
country. In my case, I'm a legitimate miktek user, but I cannot access
Malaysia mirror when I'm in Malaysia, due to this policy, and I also cannot
access Australia mirror when I'm in Australia, also due to this policy.

Mirror admin did not really care if they are being excluded, because most
of them did not even get any benefit from hosting the mirror, but it is
miktex and the end user that will benefit from having the mirror. My friend
who is writing his thesis, could consider using miktex on windows, but
because he is on slow internet and no mirror available in Malaysia, he
might just move to Texlive on windows that did not do any mirror exclusion.

So, I would really like to suggest to you to remove the exclusion of
mirrors, and give user the freedom to choose their own mirror, without
being dictated which mirror that they should connect, and being dragged
into the policy war between miktex owner and mirror admins

Thanks.


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Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
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