On 1/28/06, NextGen$ <nextgens at freenetproject.org> wrote: > * Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> [2006-01-27 14:25:19]: > > Hi, > > So, a few people have offered us mirrored space, which is great. > > > > I propose that if the people who have offered mirrored space can give > > us ssh access to that space by adding a ssh public key to their .ssh/ > > authorized_keys files, then we can have emu upload new files to those > > directories via scp. > > > I don't think it's mandatory : As soon as people can pull jars from > either HTTP or RSYNC in a crontab, it should be enough.
Having people pull the files down via crontab + RSYNC/wget would be easier and more secure for the mirrors. ie no remote access to the server is needed. > > > Emu can also do a round-robin HTTP redirect between the mirrors. > > > Yes, of course it can... However, I'm not keen on the idea of using > dns based round-robins as if a mirror is down, the connection will be > refused :/ I think that using a "captive" page would be better (by > captive I mean sourceforge like : prompting for which mirror to use). > > Of course we can provide both ;) > > > Thoughts? Nextgens - do you think you could handle this? > > > Yes, of course I can > > NextGen$ > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >
