Re: random host

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 16:21, James Cox wrote: > So, > > an idea just popped into my head... random hosts. Would anyone see anything > broken with random.php.net just taking a host to a random mirror which is > not www? I'm thinking for apps that point to php.net (eg docref root) etc, > as this would reduce some load on the server... when the country redirect > stuff gets baked, and auto-redirect works, then it'll take the user to their > closest mirror... > > thoughts? > sane ways of implementing it? :) > > -- > James Cox :: james@imajes.info :: http://imajes.info/ > Was I helpful? > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/wishlist/23IVGHQ61RJGO/ > > The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. - > Ralph Waldo Emerson > Would you have a good way to handle inactive mirrors? If you used DNS Round Robin, it would take a few days for inactive mirrors to be delisted from random.php.net (all over the Internet). -- Andrew Lindeman <alindeman@php.net>