Hi, On Wed Oct 16, 2013 at 21:01:08 +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 07:54:04PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Simon Paillard said: > > > We already have a network of almost 400 packages mirrors around the world. > > > Using http.d.n, provides the CDN layer (not as much as optimal as > > > anycast), so > > > we don't need to sort ourselves peering issues etc. > > > > The mirrors do a very good job of being near to our users in most cases > > (we have had some difficulty with things like security mirror coverage, > > but that's not your issue). I know many people are happy with http.d.n, > > but you have to understand that it's not the same thing at all as a CDN - > > it's a single host, and it's in a single location. Time to first byte > > will still suffer if you're coming from Australia. > > Obviously, it's due to current unsponsored deployment. > * For a package of several kB, the first bytes (actually ~800B, measured) are > not meaningful > * Our (mirrors@d.o) is to have http.d.n made official so that we can have an > instance like on each continent, then use GeoDNS, like security.d.o mirrors, > to > achieve 2 goals: avoid SPOF, be closer to users.
in long term, i would like to get rid of our GeoDNS setup. Martin -- Martin Zobel-Helas <zo...@debian.org> Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linux Developer Debian Listmaster http://about.me/zobel Debian Webmaster GPG Fingerprint: 6B18 5642 8E41 EC89 3D5D BDBB 53B1 AC6D B11B 627B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131019210705.gi3...@ftbfs.de
