RE: [oc] mirror - Domain names

["Ali Mashtizadeh" <ali@alikat.org>]

> 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?

Yeah I do but I havnt done it. You must do what VisualRoute
does(www.visualroute.com) it will go through every host that the user is
routed through to locate the host often within a few miles. All you have
to do is write a java program like that or a server side app like that.
Once that’s done just redirect the user to the closes server.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-cores@opencores.org [mailto:owner-cores@opencores.org] On
Behalf Of Damjan Lampret
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 11:46 PM
To: cores@opencores.org
Subject: Re: [oc] mirror - Domain names



----- 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


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

It has.

>
> 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.

>
> 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?

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

I think we will have a lot of problems with synchronization (not all
servers will always see each other) and it would probablt take enormous
amout of effort to set it up. I already see problems with the 'ordinary'
mirrors so I think it is better not to have too sophisticated/smart
system.

regards,
Damjan


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