From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 17 2:39:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from hyperion.eclipse.net.uk (hyperion.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC2014BC9 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 02:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@eclipse.net.uk) Received: from eclipse.net.uk (elara.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.31]) by hyperion.eclipse.net.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA68530; Mon, 17 May 1999 10:39:20 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <373FE2AD.AAA4AF9A@eclipse.net.uk> Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 10:34:37 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: Eclipse Networking Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marty Cawthon Cc: graeme@echidna.com, andyf@speednet.com.au, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, info@boatbooks.com Subject: Re: Redundant servers References: <373F2214.6CE8@echidna.com> <19990516173930C.mrc@ChipChat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > But how do clients know that a mirror exists? Either use a script on www.chipchat.com (list all A records on that DNS name) that works out the nearest server to the client IP address and issues a redirect to the nearest working mirror or simply have a homepage listing all mirrors with absolute hrefs to the content directory on a specific mirror. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message