[Nix-dev] Need any mirror in Asia?

[zimbatm]

@Karibu: is it possible to setup the mirror as a secondary layer cache
instead?

On Thu, 4 May 2017 at 14:18 Volth <volth at volth.com> wrote:

> Actually, there are regions with bad connectity to Amazon's Cloudfront.
> For example Russia, and, yes, Vietnam.
>
> There are few obstacles:
> 1. the distribution model is not rsync-friendly and not well suited
> for 3rd-party mirrors.
> 2. there is a  team promising to solve the geo-distribution issue
> using IPFS. There is no results yet but the expectation from their
> works lower priority of alternative solutions.
> 3. the majority of developers (and users?) are located in Cenral
> Europe (NL,DE,CZ,SI,...) so the geodistrubution issue get very little
> traction.
>
> On 5/4/17, Karibu <karibu at freedif.org> wrote:
> > Thanks for the prompt reply.
> > So you don't need any mirror in Asia and no issue from the speed there
> > I suppose.
> >
> > If one day, you will need one, you can count on me.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Kari
> >
> > On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 14:43 +0200, Domen Kožar wrote:
> >> This is not Gentoo. Our infrastructure is hosted by Amazon S3 and
> >> globally distributed over cloudflare CDN.
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Karibu <karibu at freedif.org> wrote:
> >> > Hi guys,
> >> >
> >> > Any idea about the RSYNC url I should use to do a mirror?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 21:09 +0700, Karibu wrote:
> >> > > Hehe no problem.
> >> > >
> >> > > Any mirror admin or dev to let me know the RSYNC url.
> >> > > Thanks
> >> > >
> >> > > Kari
> >> > >
> >> > > On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 00:47 +0800, Wei Tang wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Hi Karibu,
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I live in Hong Kong, and I would definitely appreciate a mirror
> >> > in
> >> > > > Asia.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > -- Wei
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Karibu writes:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Hi guys,
> >> > > > > I am the admin of the Vietnamese mirror (and blog)
> >> > freedif.org
> >> > > > > (mirror.freedif.org)
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > I have some spare bandwidth and space and would like to
> >> > support
> >> > > > > your
> >> > > > > project.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Do you need a mirror in Vietnam (no problem to support
> >> > > > > neighbourhood
> >> > > > > countries)
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Thanks
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Kari
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