On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Andrew Kenna wrote: > The tier-1 mirror idea sounds like a good one jason as it would relieve the > load on the main site at apache and we would i'm sure be able to simplify > things. > > I do think that the ftp site needs to be just a pure distribution point only > with no html files. which would simply mean that to mirror the distribution > files only for a particular project you would reference > > ftp-dist.apache.org:projectname for the actual binaries files > www-dist.apache.org:projectname for the actual web pages for that project > > Am I getting the right kinda idea or am I way off track
usually it's the same machine. e.g apache-mirror.apache.org::apache-ftp/ apache-mirror.apache.org::apache-www/ however, this is pretty academic unless Hank's (and others.. including me) issues are addressed of the basic archive structure and maintenance. -jason
