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

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 10:54, Matt Douhan wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 10.18, Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote:
> > * Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> [20050601 10:11]:
> > > * Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> [20050601 09:11]:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > Of course we thought about this solution, too, but:
> > >
> > > 1. This will put the load on one mirror instead of many.
> >
> > On a second thought, we could combine the download.kolab.org idea
> > with a single mirror being reachable as ftp.kolab.org.
> >
> > ftp.kolab.org will be used in obmtool.conf (until it supports
> > fetching a mirror list or something), and download.kolab.org (or
> > kolab.org/download/) can be used everywhere else (annoucements,
> > links etc.) to spread the load over all mirrors.

We should not enable ftp.kolab.org in obmtool.conf until obmtool can do 
a list and randomly try one.

> Like a DNS round robin? that sounds like a great idea to me

As Thomas pointed out: The problem is the path on the mirrors 
and the same access methods. Thus there is no ideal solution so far.
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