On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, James A.Treacy wrote: > I have written to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if they will handle sending > out messages and collecting site names. It is important that we > have a mechanism for collecting and distributing the site names that > support http before we start asking them to set it up.
I would like to have a specially formed master list of all available mirrors and what they carry. I have a basis for the idea at http://www.debian.org/~jgg/deity/files.html The document reads a little to specificationy, but my current scheme is a file containing lines like: deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian project/experimental/ deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian Incoming/ deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free non-us deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free non-us That should illistrate the main points in the document, the user would then simply specify a single line like: deb mirror:http://www.debian.org/archivemirrors unstable main contrib non-free non-us Which would grab things from llug and non-us.debian.org. This file would only list the prefered technique (HTTP) even if the site supports multiple access methods. HTTP refers to a HTTP/1.1 complient server supporting Range, If-Range and pipelining. The only server I know that supports all of these is Apache 1.3, Jon is working on getting boa (a 50k webserver) to support them but isn't going to be done anytime soon. I do not think Apache 1.2 supports the needed features. HTTP/1.0 servers will work but with diminishing desireability as they loose features. Also, there is no problem running the servers on different ports, with a mirror list like this it is all transparent to the user anyhow. Here is a list of all servers that I know serve the archive via http, http://ftp.kernel.org/mirrors/debian -- Apache 1.1, no HTTP/1.1 http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian -- Roxen, no HTTP/1.1 http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian - Apache 1.3b, HTTP/1.1 http://ftp.cdrom.com/?? - Haven't checked. The overseas sites servering non-us are very important to get a HTTP/1.1 server because the speed gains on high latency links are -very- substantial. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
