Re: Automatic mirror selection
Hi,
Leo "costela" Antunes wrote:
>
> It's been suggested on the referred thread[0].
> I've never worked with it myself, but my limited understanding is that
> it would need work from all mirror admins and even if that was feasible,
> there are bound to be mirrors that are (technically, bureaucratically,
> etc) unable to perform the needed changes to integrate their
> infrastructure with anycast.
Seems like Simon Blake covered the main points very well so there isn't very
much left I can say.
Besides that I'm interested in how your script works at DNS level and if it
wouldn't be more suitable to just setup a server with BIND + GeoDNS[1].
>
>
> Cheers
>
> [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.mirrors/311/focus=312
>
Cheers,
Raphael
[1]http://www.caraytech.com/geodns/
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