Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 109794
cannot recommend taiwan mirror site
Last modified: 2010-03-26 14:28:52 UTC
I tried two times to download English US v3.2 (w/o JRE) by clicking the appropriate selection on the downloads page. Both times I was automatically sent to some mirror site in Taiwan. Both times (3AM and 5AM Taiwan time, the download failed after 60 or 100 MB with a timeout error. This is especially irritating since I have to pay for bandwidth usage. The first download started well (60 - 100 KBps using a DL accelerator, but the speed dropped to 16K after a few minutes, and 5K after that. And the second download was equally fast: 3.7 to 9 KBps. I let the second one run all night. I awoke to the error "Unable to save...can not read source file." Please allow users some choice of mirror sites.
What mirror did you use? Pls. see overview on <http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors>? <ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/OpenOffice/stable/3.2.0/> really looks incomplete, and OOo-SDK_3.2.0_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe definitively is broken (7836KB) <http://ftp.twaren.net/OpenOffice/stable/3.2.0/> also looks incomplete <http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/OpenOffice/stable/3.2.0/> also looks incomplete no "OOo_3.2.0_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe" available <ftp://ftp.cse.yzu.edu.tw/pub/openoffice/>: no 3.2.0 available <http://ftp.cse.yzu.edu.tw/pub/openoffice/stable/>: no 3.2.0 available <ftp://ftp.chu.edu.tw/Mirrors/OpenOffice/stable/3.2.0/> really looks incomplete, and OOo-SDK_3.2.0_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe definitively is broken (7836KB) It looks that every mirror has another number of files for download. Here urgent action seems to be required. I sent emails to maintainers. All downloads I started worked fine, but of course, I did not try the incomplete files.
Created attachment 68137 [details] No of download files on some of the servers
A server is used for a file only if the is available there. It would be good to know from where the downloads where started to understand whether the is a problem with the selection of the mirror. The IP address of your PC or the name of the provider would be helpful.
My comments from rainerbielefeld Thu Mar 4 07:07:23 +0000 2010 contains a mistake: OOo-SDK_3.2.0_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe definitively is NOT broken. @st: How does that "file on mirror available check" work? It' not sufficient that the file is available, it also must be checked that it's not defect and that the server is not overloaded. I just teste download of "OOo_3.1.1_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz" from <http://ftp.cse.yzu.edu.tw/pub/openoffice/stable/3.1.1/>. It took more than 2 minutes until download started, then speed was only 116kB/s (TU-BS: 600kB/s, my maximum bandwidth)
IMHO this cannot be done. Otherwise a server would be permanent busy with downloading and checking thousands of files. So, this cannot be the solution. In the very most cases the files are consistent. BTW: Mirrorbrain is not able to do this as there is no function for this. It's "only" an URL redirection service.
WONTFIX is not satisfying, but I don't have any better idea. And currently it seems that we do not have big trouble with misled download attempts. So Issue 109864 might also be be a DUP of this one (or WONFIX, too)?
*** Issue 109864 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
The good thing is, we still have 5 .tw mirrors. So MB can still redirect to some. I'll close the other issue.
wontfix -> closed