[Kolab-devel] Proposal: Encourage downloading kolab from mirrors in a nicer way

[Bernhard Reiter]

Happened to talk to Martin on the phone for a few minutes.

He proposes to have our server be master.kolab.org
(keep rsync.kolab.org) and to have ftp.kolab.org point
to a mirror which usually is up to date.
That seems to be a nice solution, too.
And we can completely disable ftp and http for master.kolab.org.

Any mirror volunteering already? ;-)

Bernhard


On Tuesday 31 May 2005 19:04, Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote:

>   Or should this be an own hostname like download.kolab.org, so
>   another host (e.g. one the mirrors) might become the master http
>   and ftp download server in the future without changing the URL
>   again? But I think this would only clutter the kolab.org DNS name
>   space with something that isn't worth its own hostname, because in
>   reality it is only one web page.
>
> - ftp:// and http://ftp.kolab.org/kolab/ will only contain a README
>   describing where to get the Kolab files now, nothing else.
>   Optionally there can be a redirect to the new /download/ area, but
>   as this only works with http, this needs discussion on this list.
>
> - rsync access will no longer be possible with the old URL
>   rsync://rsync.kolab.org/ftp/kolab/ (which then contains the README
>   mentioned above), but only with rsync://rsync.kolab.org/kolab/
>   The new URL is already working!
>
>   Dear mirror admins, please change your mirroring scripts to use
>   the new URL rsync://rsync.kolab.org/kolab/ at the next
>   opportunity. But you don't need to hurry, because the old URL will
>   continue to work until a final decision is made.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
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