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

[email protected] ("[email protected]") Fri, 06 May 2011 23:33:22 -0700

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On 05/05/2011 11:34 PM, Ask BjÃ¸rn Hansen wrote:
> 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.).
>
>
>  - ask
Hmm, while reading this I was reminded of the pool.ntp.org concept, is
it applicable here? :)

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