Suggestion: The mirroring array

As of today, mirrors are given a specific subdomain to host (such as ar.php.net). The problem with this concept is that quite often mirrors get either outdated, dead, unreachable, and so on, and people who are "aware of the mirror", either by directly accessing to it, or people linking to the mirrors directly, instead of the main website, get simply nothing when such thing happens. My idea: Instead of having each mirror under a specific "number" in an array of a country, install all the mirrors as "countrycode.php.net", and use a smarter system than the current one, that will look up the IP of the CNAME that people give every once in a while (a day, for instance), and then try to contact all the mirrors according to the IP against the countrycode name. Given the "the mirror on this IP is working" status code, generate the subdomain of php.net with that IP, too. Given *no* IPs are return to have positive responses, point the subdomain to the PHP.net master mirror (or any other US mirror, whatever is decided). This new concept also helps spreading the load on countries who has numerous mirrors (i have a reason to believe that currently only the first mirror is utilized). This concept, when applied on the us servers as well, will help greatly in reducing the load on the main www.php.net website. P.S. it is possible to also have the current names stay, and stated on the website, that people could access a *specific* mirror, if they wish to do so. Comments? :) -- Best regards, Shimi ---- "Outlook is a massive flaming horrid blatant security violation, which also happens to be a mail reader." "Sure UNIX is user friendly; it's just picky about who its friends are."