On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Gavin Sherry wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It occurs to me that opening web page on www.postgresql.org, asking the
> user to select the mirror, is rather unprofessional. I am sure this has
> been discussed before but I thought I would bring it up again anyway.
Your point?
> So, why not just redirect people to one of the mirrors listed? This could
> be done based on IP (yes it is inaccurate but it is close enough and has
> the same net effect: pushing people off the main web server) or it could
> be done by simply redirecting to a random mirror.
Been there, done that, didn't work. Too much of a job to keep track of
that many IP blocks too.
Vince.
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