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On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 02:13:32 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 09/27/2010 11:39 AM, Adrian Reber wrote:
I know of cdn.debian.net which knows how to do ASN lookups since the last weekend. Mirrorbrain which runs behind the mirrorlist for opensuse and openoffice.org also uses ASNs as well as Fedora's MirrorManager which I have already set up for RPM Fusion. IF there is interest I can help set up a MirrorManager instance.
We looked at going down the route of a CDN, way back in 2006, and I've been keeping my eyes on that track since then. The reason why we didnt is that it would involve non-trivial job, monitoring and process control tasks to run on non centos.org machines; and that's not the sort of thing that large mirror providers want to look at.
Also given the very nature of how .centos.org is built up ( donated machines, with a fairly high rate of churn ) its hard to get our own gbp announces etc in place. We could potentially look at this again, maybe come up with a list of challenges and see if and how we might be able to solve them.
In the beginning, I also considered getting a BGP feed to get access to the data, but the aggregated data that routeviews.org publishes works just fine, and made the deployment easier.
But I whole-heartedly agree, it was all non-trivial nevertheless ;-)
Peter