Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] GeoDNS for www.php.net live this week!

This is awesome. Thanks for the update!

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Hannes Magnusson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> This is a heads up that we are planning on rolling out GeoDNS for
> www.php.net this week!
>
> For now only www.php.net will be in GeoDNS (not "php.net").
>
> The new mirror-test script updates the geo records hourly which
> registers our known country mirrors for that particular geo zone.
>
> We might later on improve this by registering mirrors also for certain
> continents - so lookups from countries where we don't have a mirror
> will at least be answered from that continent.
>
>
> You are encouraged to verify you get accurate results already by
> executing the following:
>
>     $ dig +short @geo1.easydns.com www.php.net
>
> This should return a cname to a mirror in the country the server is
> located in.
> Keep in mind, we usually have several mirrors per-country so you may
> need to run this a few times to get your own mirror.
>
>
> When we go live, you can verify the same with just:
>
>     $ dig +short www.php.net
>
>
> I'll send a final note once we've made the final changes to trigger
> this process.
> If you experience any issues with this, please let me know.
>
>
> -Hannes
>
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