Instant Mirror Status...?

[Les Mikesell]

Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I currently manually set the proxy for this on each machine. Would be
>> nice is there was a zero-conf way of doing this, especially on a large
>> scale.
> 
> There is - if you set up a private mirror in MirrorManager, then all
> requests from your netblock will be directed to said mirror. Or am I
> missing something?

What you are missing is that the people sharing a proxy shouldn't have 
to know about each other or set anything up.  All they should have to do 
is request the same URLs.

Why can't that happen automatically?  That is, within whatever blocks 
geoip might consider 'near', arbitrarily select the first-choice mirror 
based on the source IP range in a repeatable way.  That way everyone 
behind the same proxy requests the same URL and the caching works 
automatically.

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   Les Mikesell
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