[resending, after realizing that I was subscribed with an old address] 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