Our local mirrors are even better for CentOS servers. Even though they won't
server the world, CentOS would do well to work with them to make them easy to
find.
What we really need is something IP based.
Look up your IP on http://www.centos.org/whatismyip.php
(content: <? echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ?>)
[Example at: http://tcs.uj.edu.pl/~maze/whatismyip.php]
Use this IP (or your public IP if you already have one) and look it up in
a netmask'ed list of mirrors, something along the lines of:
149.156.81.192/29 999 http://mirror.tcs.uj.edu.pl/centos/
Where the first specifies network ip range, the second is a priority (this
should be something like bandwidth from mirror to destination network) and
the third is the mirror location centos root directory.
Anyway a client fetches: http://www.centos.org/auto-mirrors.php and gets a
list of all the above lines which matched for it's given IP (ie. the
REMOTE_ADDR). We can return only the actual mirror path - sorted by
decreasing priority (ie. bandwidth).
Then we'd have to ask people to submit lines of the above form for any
'close by' networks.
This might be a bit of an administrative headache though...
(and there'es still the issue of how to deal with partial mirrors... my
suggestion would be to allow mirroring on the version & architecture level
[as in I have 4.4 i386, 4.4 SRPMS, 5.0 x86_64, 5.0 SRPMS].
Could use a little more polish... but wondering about any first comments?
Maciej
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