Re: [oc] Re: mirror - Domain names

["Marko Mlinar" <markom@opencores.org>]

Maybe we can just start by establishing simple mirrors, with different DNSs
and then add complex solutions, if there will be a need to do so.

Marko

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ali Mashtizadeh" <ali@alikat.org>
To: <cores@opencores.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 3:43 AM
Subject: RE: [oc] Re: mirror - Domain names


> Just do like I mentioned before you have a server that redirects the
> user to the closest server. Don't mess with DNS it'll be to complicated.
>
> Ali
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cores@opencores.org [mailto:owner-cores@opencores.org] On
> Behalf Of Andreas Bombe
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 3:07 PM
> To: cores@opencores.org
> Subject: [oc] Re: mirror - Domain names
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:46:03AM +0100, Damjan Lampret wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <jdalton@bigfoot.com.au>
> > To: <cores@opencores.org>
> > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 5:12 AM
> > Subject: Re: [oc] mirror - Domain names
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > I don't have any. Unless we hear something much better, I'd say lets
> > use it.
>
> www.cc.name.org (where cc is the country code) is the way I usually see
> it done (Debian, kernel.org, PGP keyservers, IRC networks, ...).
>
> > > 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.
> >
> > Don't how this is done. But I suspect it isn't so simple. Does anyone
> > know?
>
> The DNS server needs to respond with different addresses depending on
> the requester's IP address.  Apart from software support, that requires
> building a network mapping table that makes sense, which would be quite
> some work I guess.
>
> See question 5.23 of the BIND FAQ for some slightly hackish ways to do
> it with standard BIND.  There are commercial (and maybe free) servers
> which let you do it directly.
>
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