[Avcheck] Avp update hourly

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:31:35AM +0200, Piotr Klaban wrote:

> Then they release new avp.set and upYYMMDD.avc at about 15:15 GMT,
> and update daily.avc (and avp.klb - filelist mtime etc. file)
> at about 21:15 GMT.

Yup. So that's 17:15 and 23:15 in Germany (and that's what I'm
observing!)

> I think that hourly updates are better if the connection
> to Russia is broken for some time (or our local or international
> connection), but I do not know how the ftp.avp.ru server
> would behave when everybody would connect to them at one hour
> e.g. 22:00 GMT (I am connecting at 21:55 :-).

Sometime I'm seeing FTP Server problems.
The Perl Script could be improved to query mirrors.

BTW - are there any plans to cryptographically sign the updates?

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