I pondered that too, but for that the following must have taken place:
1. more than 300 people using this proxy suddenly wanted to have the BASS CD version, all of them within 24 hours on each sunday since I set up the mirror. Maybe all this happened on a LAN party ....
2. isn't a proxy supposed to cache user requests? AFAIK it is, so it must just have dumped the file from it's cache when the next request came.
Also I would assume that the proxy should have a more or less fixed IP address. Both IP addresses where unused when I checked few days later.
No, from a proxy I would expect a different load distribution than the following (excerpt from my logfiles from the days I mirrored the file). The first number is traffic in KB, the latter one the percentage of the overall traffic up today.
Hmm.: I was averaging 0.3kb/s on the daily win32 snapshot when downloading through firefox - I pasted the link into my download manager and it flew at full speed...Until 81%, it's now going at about 0.01kb/s
clem wrote:for example there's no download site linked from scummvm for either the German disk or talkie version of FOTAQ - even though that is confirmed to be legal freeware;
As I mentioned it here earlier, there is a download link for [at least] the German CD version of FOTAQ: http://www.muhserver.de/index.php?aktVerz=12. I wondered why you hadn't linked to this site. Well, for the German Disk version, I suggest someone compromises this version and could post it then on such a site as above.
4all:
And about the daily snapshots: Just get a free download accelaretor from the web and you can download the snapshots without any problems.
