[tex-live] mirroring the texlive archive/ selectively

[Robin Fairbairns]

Ivan Shmakov <ivan at theory.asu.ru> wrote:

>  IS> Indeed.  It might make a sense to introduce per-protocol domain
>  IS> names, like http.mirror.ctan.org, rsync.mirror.ctan.org, etc.
> 
>  RF> hah!  cambridge already has that, and it causes no end of trouble
> 
> 	Huh?  What kind of problems?

things like assumptions about the behaviour round-robin dns records.

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