On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 04:48:10PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: > Essentially, I'd like to mirror the download areas, that is > http://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/ . It currently amounts to 5GB. > > Ok. Can we provide rsync access?
Like: rsync dl.sv.gnu.org::releases ? :) > I was wondering how/whether Savannah could in the long term use the > GNU mirrors for the non-GNU areas > > We could write the GNU mirrors (the ones we have contacts for) and see > if they are interested. > > with a simple load-balancing system based on Geo::IP (I already sent > you similar code a couple months ago > > I haven't announced it yet, but after much discussion Randy Kobes at the > U. of Winnipeg has set up http://ftpmirror.gnu.org to autoredirect to a > "nearby" ftp mirror, based on the originating IP address and using > mirmon to try to avoid down/dead mirrors. (There is also > http://mirror.ctan.org for TeX.) I imagine he'd be happy to do the same > for nongnu once we get a batch of mirrors signed up. > > Might be a couple days, but I'll cc you when I write to the people I > know. Cool. -- Sylvain
