Pier Fumagalli wrote:
On 27/10/02 0:54, "David Burry" wrote:
>I agree that a link on a "tar.gz" (etc) filename is a lot more intuitive if
>it serves an actual tar.gz file... What about a script that randomly
>redirects to an actual mirrored file? I realize it may be necessary to
>monitor all mirrors to automatically take them in and out of the loop when
>they're up and down, but still.... I also wish there was a way to
>automatically detect which one is actually closer and fastest network-wise
>too... hmm.. This is probably getting to be too complex of a suggestion for
>anyone to do with volunteer time and resources but still just an idea... ;o)
Right. If we had very reliable mirrors and a good technique for keeping them that way, I'd be fine with doing an automatic redirect or fancy DNS tricks. But we don't have that at the moment.
I looked into it back in the days, but the only way would be to go down toSee: http://maxmind.com/geoip/
RIPE (IANA in the US) to see where that IP is coming from, doing some weirdo
WHOIS parsing and stuff... _WAY_ overkilling... Anyhow this is going waaay
offtopic! :-)
If someone wants a little project, it shouldn't be too hard to integrate this into the existing closer.cgi script.
Joshua.
