Re: php.net mirror selection, DNS vs. IP

Jens Ropers wrote: > Hi there, > > Currently, when I access http://www.php.net/mysql_connect/ from > Germany, > I get redirected to http://de3.php.net/mysql_connect/ (or de, > de1, > de2...). While the benefits of local mirroring and round robin load > balancing are absolutely crystal to me, I would like to suggest doing > this exclusively on an _IP address level_, so that it's transparent to > the visitor and so that the actual URL WON'T change. We don't have the global infrastructure it would require to do that. We rely on a very heterogenious collection of donated servers and bandwidth. Take the extra second and strip off the de3. part from the url and send php.net/mysql_connect -Rasmus