RE: new romanian mirror

As far as the 2 mirrors rule goes, the real limit is rsync. We provide rsync from a server in valinux, who closely monitor bandwidth, so we have to be careful. However, I am close to having an EU rsync server, and i have already split apart distributions from phpweb, and intend to do the same for the manual. The intention here is that we can ask the mirrors to rsync these different services at different rates -- therefore pulling the bigger data less frequently... However there is still some more work to go to make that happen. As far as round robin's go -- i disagree. I once proposed them, but since seeing what's happened to ezmlm.org, where most of the mirrors fail, and so it's impossible to get to any one of them, i'd hate to see that happen and load being transferred to www.php.net. Therefore I propose to slowly lift the 2 mirrors restriction; prioritize mirrors based on quality (as in the ro* case); and use geoip to redirect to mirrors on the site. -- james > -----Original Message----- > From: nicos@php.net [mailto:nicos@php.net] > Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 5:58 PM > To: php-mirrors@lists.php.net > Subject: 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 > > > > > > >