Re: Country specific round-robin on mirrors

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:22, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > > The XX mirrors will need to listen to XX1 too, no? No. We don't have XX1 now, I surely wouldn't add that layer of complexity in trying to make things simpler. >> 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 > > I don't think that is a good idea. > If one of the mirrors simply sux, or you disagree with their treatment > of cats, you still should have the option of selecting your preferred > XXY mirror.. Then you're defeating the purpose of round-robin DNS. Unless you add persistence based upon the point of entry (which still defeats the purpose), then still having the ability to override the DNS rotation by preference circumvents and contradicts everything you've suggested. >> 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. > > Most links from search engines are without a xxx prefix as we set our > canonical url without it. > I think actually browsers are even overwriting addressbar copying with > the shorturl (or maybe that was just extensions?). I know that anytime I grab a link from somewhere on the site, I have to remove the US or US2, so it may be an extension or a browser other than Chrome. And I'm not concerned nearly as much about the search engines as I am forums, independent sites, blogs, et cetera --- the actual web, not the search results thereof. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/