Re: question about rr...

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Sebastian Zavadschi <sz@box.md> wrote: > >> I've mentioned before, this can be easily sorted out if you add a rewrite >> rule to your Web Server config. Below is my example for Nginx (should be >> easy in Apache too): > > >> if ($host != 'md1.php.net' ) { >> rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://md1.php.net/$1 permanent; >> } >> So, you may adopt this solution and publish it to Mirroring The PHP >> Website<http://php.net/mirroring.php> >> guide. >> > > This would redirect the traffic from the load balanced domain to the > mirror happened to serve that particular request. > I don't think that is our intention. > Understood, but in some particular cases it's better to take on you the visitor who reached your server. Just imagine you have a broken mirror but for some reason still active in DNS, you may get weird results. Round-robin still distributes the clients across servers, once you hit a working mirror, you should stay there, but, this is my personal opinion, maybe I don't think globally :) > >> By the way, just noticed that md.php.net DNS record is missing, just >> md1.php.net has the correct CNAME. Any reasons for this? >> > > It was removed from the round-robin rotation, because it wasn't able to > serve out the mirror-info.php when requested via the md.php.net hostname > I guess that was caused by your rewrite rule. > Unfortunately the notification about the removal didn't reached this list, > which was my fault. :( > If you could remove your redirect rule for now, and wait for an official > solution from Dan, I can put your mirror back into the rotation for > md.php.net. > > Removed, should be fine now. > -- > Ferenc Kovács > @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu > -- *Sebastian Zavadschi* +1 917 310 1719 (szavadschi) +373 6999 9914, +373 7987 9005