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That needs a binary to run on the remote host for protocol support, doesn't it? I wonder how long that'd take to get transferred and running, over as slow a lin
by throwanem 2y ago
That needs a binary to run on the remote host for protocol support, doesn't it? I wonder how long that'd take to get transferred and running, over as slow a link as it sounds like this was.
- philsnow 2y agoSince you can reach the host, presumably it has some kind of access to system updates / packages. In that case, ideally you paste a command like "sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y mosh\n" or something. You can even paste the newline at the same time and save a round-trip.
- Dylan16807 2y ago"from a local mirror" does not involve transferring the binary over the slow link.
- throwanem 2y agoIt isn't perfectly clear even in the detailed description whether any other link was available, but I tend to suspect that if anything faster had been, then it would have been used in preference to the one that actually was.
- Dylan16807 2y agoIt's a cable going between entire countries that got cut. Anything inside the country should still be full speed. There is no link that could be used in preference. Any repo that the factory stations could access would be unusable by Singapore AWS. And any repo that Singapore AWS could access would be unusable by the factory stations. But the two ends of the link don't have to use the same repo.