Re: [oc] mirror - Domain names

[jdalton@bigfoot.com.au]

If setting up mirrors, I would suggest that subdomains be allocated
within opencores (assuming opencores has its own domain name
server).

One option would be to use a country code as the sub name.  For
example, as US server would be: us.opencores.org,
an Indonesian server would be: id.opencores.org,
and so on.  How to handle multiple servers in a country?
Perhaps us1, us2, us3,... and so on?

Of course there is no reason why subdomains should be
geographically based.  Geographic names do have the
advantage though of letting people chose a server
closest to them.  Any suggestions for better naming schemes?

Getting more sophisticated, would it be possible to have the
name 'www.opencores.org' automatically resolve to the nearest
server for each user?  In this case, the main server should still
have a fixed name (home.opencores.org?) so auto
redirection can be bypassed in case of problems.

Getting REALLY sophisticated, it would be fun to do away
with a 'main' server and have a truly distributed environment,
with every server equal.

Best wishes
John

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