Hi, On 16/05/14 00:00, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > I'm guessing the gb.* lookups are mostly you. The au.* lookups are DSA. > > That leaves somebody looking up nl*. You and he/she might be the last users of > this zone. Why did you discount the fr., it. and us. queries? nl.arm. does not seem to resolve any more (maybe it really does mean old pre-squeeze ABI so is not on the mirrors now anyway), > I don't think this level of traffic (the TTL is 10m) justifies the maintenance > of this zone by either the mirror team (who don't want it ) or DSA (who don't > want to maintain it). If that's your position then I can't ask you to do otherwise. I've always thought it was a good design with certain advantages over http.debian.net [1][2][3] and even easier to use than looking through the list of mirror sites. Thanks Luca for re-checking the popularity of the zone. It seems sufficiently low that I don't object to its complete removal. Thanks also Raphael for offering to handle this traffic but it seems unnecessary now. [1]: mirror.debian.net was very decentralised due to DNS's nature; if using your ISP's resolvers perhaps all traffic would be within your country; http.debian.net is somewhat bottlenecked by the HTTP redirector[s] (currently just one, in Germany) [2]: mirror.debian.net's RRSETs allow automatic (without running apt-get again) retrying from other mirrors depending on their reachability *right now* from *your* network; periodic monitoring by http.debian.net may take other routes [3]: mirror.debian.net's URIs don't change, allowing caching proxies to work very effectively; if http.debian.net uses permanent HTTP redirects and those are cached, it could 'pin' to a bad host after it goes down [and the target object may have been evicted from cache]; not caching the redirect would mean URIs change and cache hit ratio is much lower as a result Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain steven@pyro.eu.org
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