On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Mark Cooke wrote:
> The main problems here are:
>
> 1. Communications with mirror site maintainers
> 2. Administration of a large and volatile redirection list.
> 3. Lack of automatic fail-over.
Unfortunately, FTP mirror sites (via FTP) are fundamentally flawed, in
that *someone* must choose to use the mirror site, either the user having
enough clue to realise when something is available closer, the primary
site admins actually advertising that mirror sites exist, or the local
cache administrators putting in specific redirections.
The idea of URN support (http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-19.html,
http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/urn-support.html and
http://info.internet.isi.edu:80/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc2169.txt) seems
rather nice for a partial solution to choosing the best mirror site (ie,
its still got to be coded, the site admins need to advertise it etc etc)
--==--
Bruce.
Sysadmin, TheHub.
Received on Wed Nov 04 1998 - 17:57:45 MST
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