On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 09:53:35AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Simon Paillard said: > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:07:05PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > > On Wed Oct 16, 2013 at 21:01:08 +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 07:54:04PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > > This one time, at band camp, Simon Paillard said: > > [..] > > > > * Our ([email protected]) is to have http.d.n made official so that we can > > > > have an > > > > instance like on each continent, then use GeoDNS, like security.d.o > > > > mirrors, to > > > > achieve 2 goals: avoid SPOF, be closer to users. > > > > > > in long term, i would like to get rid of our GeoDNS setup. > > > > I guess you have a rationale for this ? > > Which issues do you have with GeoDNS ? > > The major design problem is that it points you to a mirror that is close > to your DNS server, rather than a mirror that is close to you.
In our idea, it would just points to a close http.d.n redirector, not to a close mirror. The point you raises applies to a solution like cdn.debian.net. -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
