Re: mirror sites
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Fri, 26 May 2000 00:59:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: mirror sites | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.dev |
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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