More one default server by country

[Gökdeniz Karadağ]

Hi,

On 03-05-2010 19:19, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
>> If the fr2.archive.ubuntu.com is the server for reverser-dns "orange"
>> and the company who host him decide to turn off, fr2.archive.ubuntu.com
>> is repoint with another working mirror that is near (not in km, but in
>> latency) than Orange customers.
>
> Yup, this might be a workable idea, you'd need to start off by collecting
> reverse mappings (or registry handles for IP ranges) and associate them
> with the mirrors.
>
> That said, I have some reservations about the ammount of work involved in
> setting up and maintaining all these tables. But then again, even at
> worst choice of mirror, it wouldn't be worse than the current choice,
> really.
>
> /Mattias Wadenstein
>

There is no need to manually maintain a table.
MirrorBrain is a mirroring solution, that redirects downloads according 
to AS number(Network or ISP), country and continent, using GeoIP data.
[1]: http://mirrorbrain.org/

The sytem is in use for openoffice.org downloads and opensuse's ISO & 
package downloads. MirrorBrain can be used to set up a reliable 
redirection to mirrors: It does not redirect to non-existant files, it 
does not redirect to currently non-operational mirrors.

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Gökdeniz Karadağ