On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:14:23 -0400 Daniel Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> gNewSense now has a mirror at MIT - mirrors.mit.edu/gnewsense > >>>> > >>>> [email protected] is contact address - they are setting up for > >>>> 2:17am EST pull at the moment. > >>> > >>> What mirror(s) can we give them? us.archive is our canonical > >>> mirror location, and is held at the FSF. > > > > no, my thought was more 'if they want to appear in our archive dns > > pool, how should we do this'? > > Hmm, I'm not sure. Back when I used Debian and Ubuntu, I always just > used debian.lcs.mit.edu and ubuntu.media.mit.edu - I don't know if > they also had .debian.org / .ubuntu.com aliases. > > Since both mirrors are very high speed and very close geographically, > perhaps it would make the most sense to have us.archive.gnewsense.org > continue to point to the FSF server, but have a procedure in place to > switch that over to the MIT server if that one has downtime. shame it would involve lots of renaming - we could have named the host at the fsf ftp-master (as per Debian), and pushed us.archive onto MIT (as long as they were happy with it). kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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