Re: [oc] Re: mirror - Domain names

["Tim O'Neil" <mega_gojira@wowmail.com>]

This is an excellent suggestion.

--- "Marko Mlinar" <markom@opencores.org> wrote:
>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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