On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Scott Kveton wrote: > > D) I'm sure there are some other ideas, but these are some of the things > > I thought I'd throw into the discussion > > Another couple of things come to mind ... how can we route traffic to > these mirrors in a better fasion? How can you assure the "quality" of > the mirrors?
i disagree with "routing" traffic other than as a guide to "pick your mirror" and giving people a list of the best mirrors and/or a selection process. > One thought for routing traffic is to do it via DNS (like kernel.org or > gentoo.org). Have something like: > > http://www.us.apache.org (etc for each country) > or > http://download.us.apache.org > > Then reference these from the website. Apache manages the DNS so you > can add/remove mirrors at a whim. yep, that works well. i would just think it bad if you enforce the choice so people can selectively choose a mirror for their use. regards, -jason
