[OLPC-AU] Australian mirror for XO builds

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 28 February 2011 15:55, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> On 28 February 2011 15:34, David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:sridhar at laptop.org.au]
>> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 7:17 PM
>> To: David Farning
>> Cc: OLPC Australia list; systems
>> Subject: Re: [OLPC-AU] Australian mirror for XO builds
>>
>> On 26 February 2011 09:31, David Farning <dfarning at activitycentral.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
>>> <sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
>>>> AARNET have kindly agreed to provide Australian mirroring for the
>>>> official XO builds:
>>>>
>>>>  http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/olpc/
>>>>
>>>> This mirror will be updated daily.
>>>>
>>>> This should hopefully make the builds easier to download. If your ISP
>>>> has a peering agreement with AARNET, you may also be able to download
>>>> without depleting your download quota.
>>>
>>> Another thought might be to work with the sysadmins from Sugar Labs to
>>> use the existing sugar labs download network.
>>>
>>> The Sugar Labs download network serves http://download.sugarlabs.org/
>>> and http://activities.sugarlabs.org//en-US/sugar/ a.sl.o is nearing
>>> 5million activity downloads:)
>>>
>>> The Sugar Labs sysadmins can add aarnet.edu.au to the mirror
>>> configurations so that all download requests from Australia are served
>>> via the aarnet.edu.au mirror.
>>>
>>> From that point forward it will just be a matter of rsyncing au builds
>>> to downloads.sugarlabs.org . mirrorbrain will handle the rest.
>>
>> |What would it take to set up something like this? I can ask AARNET to
>> mirror the download.sugarlabs.org, if that's required.
>>
>> +1. We ask AARNET to mirror download.sugarlabs.org via rsync. Then add
>> AARNET to the list of known mirror in mirrorbrain.
>
> I've just put in a request with AARNET. They are already mirroring
> OLPC and OLPC AU, so I have high hopes that they'll do SL too.
>
>> |Is the redirect automatic? That is, if someone in Australia tries to
>> download from sugarlabs.org, can they automatically served by AARNET?
>> |That would make our downloads much faster.
>>
>> +1. The initial http request (very small) goes to the primary server hosted
>> in Boston by the Free Software Foundation. Using GEOIP to determine physical
>> locality and an Apache module named mod_asn to determine network locality
>> the download request is redirected to the best mirror. In the case of
>> Australia that would be AARNET.
>
> Brilliant! I'll let you know when the mirroring is set up.

Alrighty then, we've got http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/sugarlabs/
set up as a mirror within Australia. If we could get some transparent
redirection going for Australian users, that would be fantastic.

Who handles this? David, I assume that's the
systems at lists.sugarlabs.org you added to the CC list?

Thanks,
Sridhar


Sridhar Dhanapalan
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