On 11/26/2017 10:58 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
Dave, in talks with cPanel a few weeks they also offered help using
their 40+ mirrors worldwide. We should open a ticket and think about
how we can use shorted-path or geolocated algorithms coupled with
weighting to maximize the mirrors. Thoughts?
I am sure there are ways to determine location/country and hit the
nearest one in the sa-update logic. I am not sure that the three
relatively small ruleset files need to be optimized too much. As long
as sa-update knows which version it downloaded last and it compares
agains the DNS TXT version to only download when there is a
difference, then it should be optimized enough. If it downloads from
a mirror on the opposite side of the earth, I don't think that 200 KB
is going to make much difference if it takes 2 seconds or 30 seconds
from a time perspective. If we were talking about 10x the size, then
it might be more of a problem that needed solving.
Fair enough.
Regards,
KAM
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Kevin A. McGrail
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