tora - Takamichi Akiyama wrote:
You may have noticed there is a thread "Geographically adaptive bouncer"
in the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] have been discussing the
bouncer.
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Additionally, assume that you were in Paris and click on a link at
http://download.openoffice.org/ to start downloading the latest OOo.
The bouncer kindly would offer you one of the listed HTTP mirror sites.
The offered site would be one of the HTTP mirror sites spreading all
over the world. Sometime it would be in Africa, sometime, in Brazil,
sometime in India, ...
As far as I am concerned as a mirror admin, this is the reason why I
dropped my Mozilla mirror (request coming from all over the world).
This kind of behaviour is annoying for a few reasons :
- cost : I am working for a small french ISP and if we have many peering
links in France and a few in nearby countries in Europe, most of the
rest of the world is reachable through transit links whose bandwidth
costs more than peering links (even if a geographically adaptive bouncer
using a GeoIP-like tool will not know anything about our network
topology, probability for seeing people through local/peering links will
be much higher).
- speed : long distance links are more likely to be filled up/slower,
thus downloads should be faster
- server : as downloads will be faster, the server will have less
simultaneous connections (or the server may deliver more data with the
same number of simultaneous connections, which is not a problem as
bandwidth is cheaper).
Right now, I do not mind hosting an OpenOffice mirror as FTP mirrors are
not used by the bouncer (and I am quite surprised to output a little
more than 500 GB a day).
François
PS by the way, I really prefer having a list of nearby mirrors than a
direct link to a "random" server.
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