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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: gNewSense now has a mirror at MIT / broken syml
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Daniel Clark |
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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: gNewSense now has a mirror at MIT / broken symlinks |
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Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:48:01 -0400 |
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Paul O'Malley <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Daniel Clark wrote:
>>>>>> gNewSense now has a mirror at MIT - mirrors.mit.edu/gnewsense
>>>>>>
>>>>>> address@hidden is contact address - they are setting up for 2:17am
>>>>>> EST pull at the moment.
>>>>> What mirror(s) can we give them? us.archive is our canonical mirror
>>>>> location, and is held at the FSF.
>>> no, my thought was more 'if they want to appear in our archive dns pool,
>>> how should we do this'?
>>
>> Hmm, I'm not sure. Back when I used Debian and Ubuntu, I always just
>> used debian.lcs.mit.edu and ubuntu.media.mit.edu - I don't know if they
>> also had .debian.org / .ubuntu.com aliases.
>>
>> Since both mirrors are very high speed and very close geographically,
>> perhaps it would make the most sense to have us.archive.gnewsense.org
>> continue to point to the FSF server, but have a procedure in place to
>> switch that over to the MIT server if that one has downtime.
>>
>> Also IMHO something like mit.us.gnewsense.org and fsf.us.gnewsense.org
>> would be useful.
>>
> +1 for naming conventions
> this is not to deprecate any in use just make more aliases
If kk is cool with it I'll go make the CNAMEs.