Re: ftp.debian.org has incomplete mirror

[Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:34:58PM +0200, Franklin PIAT wrote:
> Has there been some thought to provide some mirror whose DNS name would
> be :
>  ftp.i386.fr.debian.org/debian/ or ftp.fr-i386.debian.org/debian/
> So distinct architecture could point to different mirror.

We have that under mirror.debian.net:

% host fr.i386.mirror.debian.net
fr.i386.mirror.debian.net       A       194.2.0.36
fr.i386.mirror.debian.net       A       138.231.176.11
fr.i386.mirror.debian.net       A       62.4.17.18
fr.i386.mirror.debian.net       A       130.79.200.5
fr.i386.mirror.debian.net       A       138.102.135.210
fr.i386.mirror.debian.net       A       194.57.105.78
fr.i386.mirror.debian.net       A       88.191.50.140
fr.i386.mirror.debian.net       A       213.186.33.37
fr.i386.mirror.debian.net       A       195.221.21.36
fr.i386.mirror.debian.net       A       193.52.61.12
fr.i386.mirror.debian.net       A       212.27.32.66
fr.i386.mirror.debian.net       A       193.54.19.19
fr.i386.mirror.debian.net       A       193.48.57.38

> Especially, I understand that it might be difficult to get the apache's
> "ServerAlias" updated on each mirror, when a new architecture is made
> available.

The script which generates DNS actually checks that. :)

-- 
Josip Rodin
mirrors@debian.org