RE: random host

--- Adolfo Garcia Veytia <adolfo.garcia@uservers.net> wrote: > Mh yes but I what I mean is that it would be rather > hard to have all the mirror administrators do the change. > > To coordinate all servers wuold me much more difficult > than just looking up the file a couple of times a week > using the IP addr, don't you think? Hmm, maybe I don't understand completley what this file will do, but the extra configuration would underscore the need for a particular subset of mirrors being a part of this round-robin scheme. This subset would then be highly available and reachable, with the administrators having a heads up. H > > Adolfo Garcia > Urbano/uServers > > > > On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 19:27, Hans Zaunere wrote: > > --- Adolfo Garcia Veytia <adolfo.garcia@uservers.net> wrote: > > > Exatcatly, but what I mean is that if we use round robin > > > for this then all mirrors that use name based DNS will need > > > to be reconfigured to accept the server alias don't they? > > > > Yes, but reconfiguration would be trivial. In apache: > > > > ServerAlias random.php.net > > > > and then just a restart. > > > > H > > > > > > > > > That's what i meant. > > > > > > Adolfo Garcia > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 16:54, James Cox wrote: > > > > > What kind of load/traffic should we expect on the mirrors > > > > > from this change ? > > > > > > > > > more :) > > > > > > > > > I assume this would be done through multiple IP addresses > > > > > on the DNS entry of random.php.net.. How would you make sure > > > > > that all mirrors respond to the name? Or would this be done > > > > > through an http redirection script on www.php.net? > > > > > > > > > dns round robin. > > > > > > > > -- james > > > > > > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc > > > > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc