RE: [oc] Re: mirror - Domain names

[Lee Ainscough <Lee.Ainscough@pace.co.uk>]

Is it possible to set-up a new group at opencores.org for any mirror related issues.

i.e mirrors@opencores.org


The emails are getting a bit off thread for cores@opencore.org etc

Thanks

Lee




> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Marko Mlinar [SMTP:markom@opencores.org]
> Sent:	Tuesday, January 22, 2002 7:01 AM
> To:	cores@opencores.org
> Subject:	Re: [oc] Re: mirror - Domain names
> 
> 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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