On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Raphael Geissert wrote:

> Squeeze's apt supports http redirections, making the whole task easier and 
> allowing a great number of users to benefit from the new service.
> 
> My project is, at the moment, stuck in the middle of a rewrite to use Plack 
> and the need of using something like Md's zebra-dump-parser to better make a 
> decision of what is the best mirror to handle the request.

Another approach would be to simply make this an apache rewrite rule
map.  I wonder how that'd scale.

> The current implementation is architecture, country, and AS-aware (only if 
> the request comes from an IP in the same AS network as the mirror), with 
> some bits of initial support for city-based mirror choosing.
> No attempt to balance load is, yet, done.

Very nice.  Where can I find the current code/docs/etc?

weasel
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