Re: new romanian mirror

Btw I had asked to host a fr3 but it was rejected and france are really charged more than ro. So I see no need of any romanian mirror more, if 1 or 2 is lagging we should remove one to replace it by the new if it is better. -- Nicos - CHAILLAN Nicolas nicos@php.net www.WorldAKT.com - Hébergement de sites Internet "Gabor Hojtsy" <gabor@hojtsy.hu> a écrit dans le message de news: 016f01c26e18$b122e600$6037a3d5@mia... > > Just out of curiousity, is there any reason why we *should* be limited > > to 2 mirrors per country? > > As far as I can remember, this was rsync availability. The central rsync > server simply cannot handle even the current number of mirrors. In times > of new releases, some mirror sites are only updated after days, because > the only one rsync server is bogged down. There were some tries to make > more rsync servers but that was forgotten somehow. James was on the way > to propose a new mirroring rule set, but it seems he had no time for > that. > > > Also, while we're talking about DNS, what do people think about doing > > away with ro, ro2, ro3, etc., and just setting ro.php.net to round-robin > > between all the Romanian mirrors? of course, I'm not talking about just > > ro ... this would apply to all the countries. XX.php.net would be a > > round robin entry for all the mirrors, but you could still access the > > mirrors individually as XX1, XX2, etc. > > Well, it would be nice, but for the first time, that would mean that > all mirrors need to be shifted one number up, or xx.php.net's will > become max(xxnumbers("xx.php.net")) + 1 . ".php.net"; to free up > the xx.php.net names to be round robin addresses. > > Goba > >