El Mon, 21-09-2009 a las 09:16 +0200, Marten Vijn escribió: > Hi, > > Last saturday I (on EuroBSDcon) was talking with > folks for ISC. > > They be willing to mirror sugar as well. > > Shall I start working on this?
Increasing the number of mirrors would certainly not hurt us, but I'm not sure how beneficial it is unless we start pointing users at these mirrors. The most rudimentary way would be doing round-robin DNS on download.sugarlabs.org. The next step would be delegating download.sugarlabs.org to smart nameservers with GeoIP and dynamic mirror add/removal based on monitoring. But wouldn't this be a duplication of what services like Cacheboy and Mirrorbrain already do? We also have a namespace problem to address: last year, Marco convinced me to shorten the URL by scrapping the "/sugar" prefix. This means that mirrors would now have to configure a virtual host for download.sugarlabs.org. We could fix this by re-introducing /sugar and adding temporary compatibility aliases to the main server, but it wouldn't work for the mirrors. What do you think? -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
