Re: Country specific round-robin on mirrors

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 03:16, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all (intentionally not flooding php-mirrors@) > > How do you guys feel about tweaking our mirror infrastructure a little > by making countrycode.php.net a round robin to > countrycode[1,2,3].php.net? > > That would mean that _all_ mirrors would have to update their > ServerAlias (to listen to countrycode.php.net, and existing > countrycode.php.net would need to "rename" themselfs to > countrycode1.php.net). > This would fix the situation when the countrycode.php.net mirror > becomes inactive, and therefore breaking for people writing > countrycode.php.net directly (which surprisingly many people do). > It would also workaround situations like mentioned in #61146.. I'm okay with that. I see many other benefits it would give to both the site visitors and us, as well. This spring will be another overhaul of the mirrors --- getting PHP versions updated, doing some cleanup, getting contact information updated and alternates defined, finishing the SQLite normalization, and finally putting the geo-displaced rsync layer, among other things. I'll work in the hostname updates in the process. I'd probably just have the XX2 and XX3 mirrors add XX to their ServerAlias definitions, though, keeping them also listening on their existing alternates, and not changing XX mirrors. We should then add a redirect rule so that if the hostname is not /^[a-z]{2,}$/, it gets rewritten to match such. Thus, XX2 (XX3) automatically force-redirect to XX, even though all original hosts still exist. Then, moving forward, new mirrors will simply add XX as opposed to XX# as their ServerName definition, and - when a country has its secondary (and tertiary) mirrors removed - links will eventually break.... but for the most part, by then, users will be used to just seeing XX.php.net, and links they copy and paste will be the same, so a relatively small number of broken links should exist. Save for what will then be, in relation to the Internet, some antique links in the archives and such. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/