RE: random host

> The main consern about it is that we test hosts every hour. So we have > info on whether the host was up the last hour or not. What if > random.php.net redirects a user to a server which is down? > > About the implementation, I don't really know how to do it, but someone > said DNS caches will be hard to overcome. This is not a huge problem for > random mirrors, but for a "my mirror" it is... > my solution will be to add some stuff to your generate dns zone file thing with the current list of good mirrors. perhaps we could store a score of the past ten checks, and only list the top ten mirrors ..... -- james