On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, James A.Treacy wrote: > I've discussed this with Jason and he's against it. He feels that it will be > too > much administrative overhead to keep a list of acceptable mirrors. The reason > we would want to set up restrictions is to prevent just anyone from mirroring > from > the primary Debian sites (va and master. It would be a good idea to minimize > the > net load from mirroring so they can be used for other tasks).
Lets ask Andrew to add CHAP like authentication - that will clear my complaints. I don't like the idea of IP based authentication, it is weak and it is a pain to admin. > Given the large number of mirrors (ftp and www) it would be a good idea if we > set up > a more formal mirroring policy. My proposal would be to switch to anon rsync > on > master which is restricted to 3 primary ftp and web mirrors (2 in the US and 1 > in Europe for both ftp and web). All other mirrors would have to use one of > the primary mirrors. Also, those primary mirrors will be 'push' mirrors. Lets not do this until Guy adds the runparts we talked about earlier. I propose a two level scheme, master does a push to the top level mirrors (va, .de, .uk, .au) then each of those does a push to a few others. I think we should require that mirrors in the .debian.org domain be push mirrors - I see too many complaints that a mirror is perpetually broken because it mirrors a mirror during it's mirror cycle. We can set va to push mirror from master as soon as guy adds the runparts script and see how things work. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
