Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1959 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 11 October 2008 03:33:02 pm Angus MacGyver wrote:
....
> Hmmm
>
> Original poster has a very valid point.
>
> I can't really fathom an excuse to be honest..
>
> You have a redirector that is supposed to protect things when a site
> goes down - but this redirector is at the site in question ?????

Hmm. One of us doesn't understand what openSUSE redirector is doing. 

It is redirecting download traffic to mirrors, not protecting site from  
outages. This is not Akamai net, this is a free service that should cost as 
little as possible, and doubled power feed is already good enough. 

Besides:
  http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover
explains what is planned to make package management more robust. 
 
-- 
Regards, Rajko
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