The following reply was made to PR documentation/1535; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Apache bugs database <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: documentation/1535: Easily remembered aliases for WWW-mirror sites wanted Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 12:01:17 -0700 (MST) On 9 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] > [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] > [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] > [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ] > > > Synopsis: Easily remembered aliases for WWW-mirror sites wanted > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed > State-Changed-By: brian > State-Changed-When: Tue Dec 9 10:06:22 PST 1997 > State-Changed-Why: > Good idea, but DNS can't redirect like that, it would > have to be something like http://apache.sunsite.auc.dk/. Naw, we would just need to setup a bunch of vhosts (or mod_rewrite) on a single machine that did the redirect. Problem with that is it is useless when the central site is down. > > Furthermore a "dk.apache.org" would imply some sort of > official relationship that may not exist. We haven't > decided whether to cross that bridge yet. That is a bigger issue.
