> I wonder whether it would be worthwhile getting all mirrors if theydon't have any objections disclosing what speed their mirror site has to the internet ?
Oregon State University - Internet2 (basically 2 - OC3's)
This raises the question of how informative vs. consistent our mirror names will be. Geographic hints are often useful, so I can find a NY mirror rather than Seattle or Florida. Internet 2 hints are even more helpful -- Rockefeller has a shared 45mbps Internet 1 link, but a private 155mbps Internet 2 uplink, so anything with I2 is much faster for us. Mirror naming schemes that let people identify I2-friendly university sites (like Red Hat's) <http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html> make downloads much faster than if I connect to a random host in the US via Internet 1, as with FreeBSD <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html#MIRRORS-US>, where there's no easy way to see what host is behind a name like ftp10.FreeBSD.org.
Ideally, I'd like support for both naming schemes. Provide a mirror listing with the native 'local' hostname, like a) List everything with the local hostname and let users figure it out, like distro.ibiblio.org, and also create mirror RR DNS records, such as us.apache.org & uk.apache.org, which we can point closer.cgi at, and which could also be pruned/managed automagically if someone puts the time in.
This also raises the linked issue of how consistent we want the directory structure to be. If someone says they're happy to put our stuff in /open/servers/apache, rather than under a standardized path, do we care?
Regards,
Chris Pepper -- Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/> Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>
