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Re: Automatic mirror detection



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Simon Blake wrote:
> The anycast infrastructure works really well, but you do have to have 
> pretty close control of the BGP configs.  It's likely that at any given 
> time, somebody will have fouled up their BGP config and blackholed a 
> chunk of the interweb from access to the anycast cloud, so you'd 
> probably need to maintain a set of non-anycast servers (as exists now).  
> At that point, it's not clear if an anycast network actually gains 
> debian a great deal.

Thanks for the input!
Your position reinforces mine that anycast - though technically
beautiful in some situations - doesn't really cut it in our case.

For now I'll go forward and attempt a software approach, but if any
other better suggestions arise (or someone gives some good reason to go
with anycast) I have no problem with contributing some time to help a
parallel or - better yet - congruent project!

Cheers

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Leo "costela" Antunes
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