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Re: [Fwd: pkgsrc DragonFly 1.10.1/i386 2007-09-12 00:59]


From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:33:18 +0200

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I really like the idea of having a single URL and having the web server
>     on pkgbox issue a redirect as appropriate. 
> 
>     We could even have pkgbox test the other mirrors periodically to
>     determine whether they are up or not.
> 
>     I would even do it with a CGI so it could be made as smart as possible.
>     So, e.g. we could build-in some load balancing which would allow us to
>     have 'slow' mirrors in our rotation which we would only redirect a fixed
>     percentage of the requests to.

Or hosts periodically syncing get automatically checked if they serve
the data via http and get added to the list :)

cheers
  simon




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