Re: Country specific round-robin on mirrors

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 15:45, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: > 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. Why would that defeat the purpose and how does it contradict it? We experience on daily basis bunch of times that people want to specifically switch to a different mirror near them, because the mirror selected for them is also hosting the latest firefox release and using 110% of its bandwidth which everyone is downloading, or what any number of reasons don't want to use that specific mirror. Heck, the other mirror could even be hosted in the same building and therefore being insanely much faster then others. Removing that choice isn't what I was suggesting. I was suggesting of adding a new choice - for users who don't care - just want a mirror in their country - got used to typing http://jm.php.net which now no longer exist, only jm2 does now - a consistent redirect logic rather then needing to more work to pick a mirror -Hannes