On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 13:53 -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Mon, 21-09-2009 a las 09:16 +0200, Marten Vijn escribió: <snip> > > 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? >
I don't see roundrobin as a solution. (details below) CacheBoy would be the solution if: - one or more for could join cacheboy - if/when cacheboy is open source Since the mirror do have delta's in the path Mirrorbrain would the current solution. > 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? It would not solve it. http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/3/SoaS3-200908182110.iso http://download2.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/3/SoaS3-200908182110.iso http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/sugarlabs/soas/snapshots/3/SoaS3-200908182110.iso http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Sugar/soas/snapshots/3/SoaS3-200908182110.iso http://sugarlabs.cdn.cacheboy.net/soas/snapshots/3/SoaS3-200908182110.iso so 3 out of 5 match, it does not look very promising when grow to more mirrors. Thats why I like the CacheBoy solution. cheers, Marten > -- this email is sent from my mainframe..... http://martenvijn.nl Sugar on a Stick http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ The Network Event Kit http://opencommunitycamp.org 26th Jul - 2nd August _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel