Automatic mirror detection
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Hey there,
[Just a wild idea and my first foray into this list. Be gentle.]
How feasible would it be for us to implement an "automagic" mirror
mechanism, perhaps geoip based? Does something like this already exist
and I've been living in a cave for the last few years?
The advantages I see are twofold:
- - Possibly removing one step from the installation process, or having
the "automagic" scheme selected by default during installation.
- - Helping frequent-travelers to always fetch the nearest mirror.
The way I see it happening, off the top of my head:
- - new zone created (perhaps under mirror.d.o), managed by something like
pdns-pipe consulting the mirrors database.
- - new host created (suggestion: automatic.mirror.d.o), which returns
best mirror.
- - 'best mirror' could be a function of geoip proximity/freshness of
mirror, perhaps even round robin of N best matches.
Possible problems I see:
- - incompatibilities with pdiff based apt updates?
- - system is made useless (or less useful) by caching mechanisms, either
client side or along the link?
Cheers
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Leo "costela" Antunes
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