I'm working on the search script fix at the moment so that if people start to mirror the search rsync module the seaching will be reference all local url's to that mirror instead of pointing back to apache.org all the time
Andrew -----Original Message----- From: jason andrade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02, 10, 2001 9:59 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Problems updating via rsync 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
