discuss: {Spam?} TLDP mirrors
Subject:
Re: {Spam?} TLDP mirrors
From:
Saqib Ali ####@####.####
Date:
16 Mar 2004 06:02:23 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.55.0403152134450.12930@sjgcs1.stsj.seagate.com>
Hello Tille,
That is very good map. Very informative. I had some ideas along the same
line.
I think we should have a automatic redirector based on the IP address of
the client machine.
I can configure http://tools.tldp.org so that, when ever a request comes
to
http://tools.tldp.org/mirror/ the user will get re-directed to the closest
mirror.
But for this to work correctly, we need to make sure that everyone is
RSYNCing everyday. If site is not syncing we will have to kick them out.
Any thoughts?
P.S. Thanks again for creating the map.
Saqib Ali
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Machtelt Garrels wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> Stein Gjoen suggested that it might be a good idea to let you know about
> some statistics about our mirrors, maybe to put as news on the TLDP front
> page:
>
> Just over two weeks ago, I sent an E-mail to over 370 mirror maintainers
> and asked them to answer me within roughly two weeks to check validity of
> the maintainer addresses, mirror URL and update frequency.
>
> After preliminary cleanup there are now 289 mirrors left with valid
> addresses for the maintainers.
>
> - - 2 are updating 3 times per day
> - - 19 are updating twice a day.
> - - The large majority, 90 % or 262 mirrors, are updating on a daily basis.
> - - 1 is updating once a week
> - - 4 are updating 3 times per week
> - - 1 is updating 4 times per week
>
> But in reality a good 1/4 is not up to date or unreachable from where I am
> or private within an Intranet. I am investigating on this in order to be
> able to add more details http://tldp.org/vlist.html.
> For starters, I am running the test to compare the timestamps on all
> mirrors a number of times over and over again, because it might indeed be
> that I have a bad connection to a mirror from where I am and that the
> mirror site can not be blamed. Innitially this is done from my home in
> Belgium, lateron I will run the same test from a wider variety of
> geographical locations spread allover the world.
>
> I put some dots on the map of the world, so that it would be easier to
> spot where we need more mirrors. This map is at
> http://tille.soti.org/images/tldp-world.jpg
> Note that I am not an expert on graphics, however much I learned on
> geography, but I did my best...
>
> Since the announcement that we are accepting new mirrors, already one much
> needed volunteer offered help, this was in Chile.
> You can see that we lack mirrors in Russia, large parts of Asia and
> Middle/South America and in the whole of Africa.
>
> I'll keep you posted,
>
> Tille.
>
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