Dyn offers those services as well, and I believe they are the current DNS provider for python.org, If they are going to add those sort of features, (which I have suggested in the past), then it might be best to stick the current provider.
http://dyn.com/dns/dynect-managed-dns/ Ken On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Dylan Jay <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 16/04/2012, at 11:30 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >>> Why not go to the next level and get the script on this page to update a >>> DNS load balancer with all green mirrors? >> >> >> I still think that mirror selection should be on the client side. First, >> if you have an infrastructure that updates the mirror list, it is again >> a single point of failure. Plus, clients would want to select a mirror >> based on network performance, which a DNS load balancer cannot achieve. > > > One of the services offered by edgedirector.com etc is "geo-targetted global > load balancing" which means they will serve up the IP closest to your > location. > > In any case offering a load balanced domain like "any.pypi.org" doesn't > preclude individual mirror domains. The user could choose. > > >> >> Regards, >> Martin > > _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
