Hey Andrew, I don't see the problem here. The only thing is that my site runs 128k, something that the US has as adsl (which only now has landed in South Africa) I am only trying to give back a bit to the comm. I know there are bigger sites in South Africa (ftp.saix.net ftp.is.co.za) but the problem is that I don't think that you have them as contacts.
This can also be turned into a good thing, since the user can now be presented with a choice: South Africa (3 mirrors found) ftp.saix.net 42 meg/sec (250 users/quality) ftp.is.co.za 100 meg/sec (500 users/quality) apache.insync.za.net 1 gig/sec (<grin>) What we can maybe do is get a rating system in place and the public vote for the top mirror of that country/region ? Cheers, Pieter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Kenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 2:05 AM Subject: RE: cvs commit: site/xdocs/dev mirrors.xml I wonder whether it would be worthwhile getting all mirrors if they don't have any objections disclosing what speed their mirror site has to the internet ? If we can get some sort of indication as to whats out there then some standards might be able to be implemented on minimum's etc Andrew -----Original Message----- From: jason andrade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cvs commit: site/xdocs/dev mirrors.xml On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Scott Kveton wrote: > > 4 might be a bit small, but i guess there might be some policy > > there. in the US it might make sense to have 15 mirrors. in > > australia 6. in Tibet, 2. it would be a (clearly understood) > > function of network and demand (number of internet users) in that > > region. > > I think 4 is pretty arbitrary ... how do we keep the 4 best mirrors? > I don't think you should have a million mirrors; keep it as several > high-quality mirrors ... of course how do you make sure they are high > quality? just setup a table to start with with definitions and build on that as time passes. the US starts with 16, etc. high quality is of course going to be subjective. 10Mbps is not seen as high quality in the US but it certainly would be in Djibouti. of course this leads into also needing to have something similar to the qmail check or the CPAN check - a file with a timestamp written into the apache top level directory with a master process that checks to see how up to date a mirror is. i am pretty sure there is a CPAN person here (Bjorn?) who might be able to say whether we could use the CPAN checking system for apache mirrors. it is still a manual process i understand. all the check does is let the person (Jarkko?) know if mirrors are falling out of date and if he gets 3 or 4 messages then he contacts the mirror admin directly about it. regards, -jason
