Re: Adjusting CPAN::Mirrors to make it more useful

[email protected] (Ask Bjørn Hansen)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On May 2, 2011, at 12:54, David Golden wrote:

> Doesn't a lot of this problem go away with www.cpan.org resolving to
> tier 1 mirrors?  Did I see that Robert/Ask were using some sort of
> GeoIP-aware DNS?

Yeah, though for now only with mirrors in Los Angeles and one in Europe.  Somewhat similar to the search.cpan.org setup.

(And everyone mirroring from www.cpan.org would sorta defeat the purpose of having a bunch of mirrors -- unless we put more mirrors "behind" the www.cpan.org name.).


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