On 16/04/2012, at 11:30 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Why not go to the next level and get the script on this page to
update a
DNS load balancer with all green mirrors?
I still think that mirror selection should be on the client side.
First,
if you have an infrastructure that updates the mirror list, it is
again
a single point of failure. Plus, clients would want to select a mirror
based on network performance, which a DNS load balancer cannot
achieve.
One of the services offered by edgedirector.com etc is "geo-targetted
global load balancing" which means they will serve up the IP closest
to your location.
In any case offering a load balanced domain like "any.pypi.org"
doesn't preclude individual mirror domains. The user could choose.
Regards,
Martin
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