Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (837 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lars Vogdt wrote:

> On Fr 25 Mär 2011 19:45:46 CET Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > http://en.opensuse.org/MirrorBrain
> >
> > Am I the only one in the US to find this to be more bad than good?
> > Just about any time I use download.opensuse.org repos instead of a
> > specific mirror for a lengthy dup, I find either slower than average
> > download speeds, and/or find downloading halted by errors that do not
> > self correct via retries.
>
> The problem with US is not only that we miss some powerful mirrors in
> this region. We already discussed the possibility to have some "GeoIP
> based servers" hosting download.opensuse.org - but until now, our
> internet provider could not offer us some Nameservers that can handle
> requests based on the GeoIP of the requester.
> In a beautiful world, we would have:
> a) DNS servers pointing users to their closest incarnation of
> download.opensuse.org
> b) a lot of mirrors in the region which the redirector can redirect to

But isn't exactly what mirrorbrain is supposed to help do? 


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Per Jessen, Zürich (10.1°C)

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