On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 08:16, Jonathan Tai wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 02:11, Alex Pleiner wrote:
> > * Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-24 20:10]:
> > > Any chance of mirroring some of those other .cf files found
> > > on merchantsoverseas.com, on alex.zeitform.de?
> >
> > I have already considered offering Chris a mirror for his whole site,
> > but haven't discussed this with him yet. The problem is that we have to
> > pay for traffic, so I want to monitor the traffic generated by the
> > bigevil.cf mirror for some weeks. If it stays below a painful limit, I
> > would be glad to give further support. (There are guys with phasers
> > behind me, too. ;-)
> >
>
> Have you guys thought of using round-robin DNS? sare.org is taken, but
> maybe sarules.org?
>
> We could have www.sarules.org be a web page that links to all the rules
> at update.sarules.org/sarules/download/. This would be the only server
> that needs VirutalHost support.
>
> update.sarules.org would be round-robin DNS that rotates between 5-10
> mirror servers. The requirements for a mirror would be pretty low: T1
> line or greater, reliable, the ability to create a /sarules/download
> directory, wget, and the ability to add a cron job. The ability to
> create a VirtualHost isn't required, since only the /sarules/download
> directory would be accessed (and never the web root /).
>
> Automatic-update-script writers could just hardcode the
> update.sarules.org/sarules/update URL into their scripts, and we can
> add/remove mirrors simply by updating the DNS.
I would volunteer the ISP I manage to host a mirror if this is
implemented. We have plenty of bandwidth.
-Bill Randle
SysAdmin
OutlawNet, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
