Bug#616522: GeoMirror (aka cdn.debian.net) as default mirror in standard installation?
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:30, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Samstag, 5. März 2011, Christian PERRIER wrote:
>> > I think it should be used, but IMO it should become cdn.debian._org_
>> > first, at least for stable. For sid and testing it's ok without
>> > debian.org but a stable install should fetch things from .org.
>
> That doesn't seem to be that easy, as mirrors would need to be checked
> constantly, zone files need to be updated constantly too. This will lead to
> problems due to dns caches, additionally there are problems with dnssec too.
>
>> +1 to Miguel suggestion. I was indeed thinking about the same when
>> looking at choose-mirror bugs.
>
> grml.org has been doing this, but they are appearantly not too happy with
> that.
Yes. I share your view Holger.
Using cdn on my laptop I had problems with some broken mirrors. So it
really needs a good way of checking to be used by default.
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