Matthew Dillon wrote: > I really like the idea of having a single URL and having the web server > on pkgbox issue a redirect as appropriate. > > We could even have pkgbox test the other mirrors periodically to > determine whether they are up or not. > > I would even do it with a CGI so it could be made as smart as possible. > So, e.g. we could build-in some load balancing which would allow us to > have 'slow' mirrors in our rotation which we would only redirect a fixed > percentage of the requests to.
Or hosts periodically syncing get automatically checked if they serve the data via http and get added to the list :) cheers simon
