Re: mirror sites

From: Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 00:59:59 +0000
Subject: Re: mirror sites
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> Can we make a mirrors@lists.php.net mailing list, just to keep in touch > with the admins for each of the mirror sites? This dev list gets a lot of > traffic that mirror admins really don't need to get. I think we still have our mirrors alias. I guess we could make it into a real mailing list. > Second, any reason why all the download requests are being sent to > www.php.net for logging, and then back to the mirror site? This seems a bit > unnecessary, especially given the availability of www.php.net over the last > few days. Yes, it might be nice to have download stats at a central > location, but you don't need to redirect to do it. > > Heck, we should make a system (in the future) for mirror sites (in the > future) to report their logs daily. Yeah, I agree. Having a single point of failure for downloads is bad. It's a lost cause trying to track it anyway since so many people get it through other means like Debian packages, Mandrake RPMS, RedHat RPMS, FreeBSD ports, etc. -Rasmus

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