On Thu, April 6, 2006 8:11 pm, Adam Kennedy wrote: > Before I got delayed and my JSAN timeslice ended, I had a work in > progress to automate mirror selection. > > The idea was to write a single small file into the repository containing > the index build time and the name of the mirror.
> 2. Determine the age of the mirror > > Diff the current time to the timestamp in the file. If older than a > certain threshold (say, 1 week in the CPAN case) you then know the > mirror has gone stale. CPAN has such a file at authors/02STAMP which pause updates on a regular basis. search.cpan.org uses this when selecting a mirror for redirecting so it does not redirect you to a mirror that does not have the required file. Graham.
