Hi, On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Christian Rohmann wrote: > It does wonderful things (http://mirrorbrain.org/features/):
Nice to see some much support but I would like to point out that not everything is perfect either... > * Load-Balance by GeoIP / AS matching (traffic stays very local) That's clearly the main selling point. > * Intensive checks (even via rsync) regarding mirror consistency That's good too but the downside is that the mirrors must offer rsync service, either public or at least for the mirror redirector. It's not possible to use a mirror that cannot be scanned via rsync. > ** It can serve things down to the file level to a mirror that > still/already has a certain file The "still" is wrong. It's actually an annoying bug that needs to be fixed for our usage... Kali wants to sponsor this bugfix but the upstream developer is currently busy with other stuff so it has not happened yet. https://github.com/poeml/mirrorbrain/issues/21 Which also shows another downside: this is really a one-person project currently (not different from httpredir though, and this one has the advantage of being more generic so can and already serves more projects in the free software world). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/