On 10/24/06, Brian Topping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With the snapshots repo down, there was some discussion on IRC.
Joakim mentioned there was some discussion of a resolution that was
"DNS-like, not actual DNS" and it got me thinking DNS might be a
better solution (possibly with RFC-2782 exten
On Oct 24, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Dan Fabulich wrote:
I don't think I understand the details of what you're proposing here,
but it sounds like you're thinking that the "foo" organization
would set
up maven.foo.org, and that Maven would automatically fall back to
checking maven.foo.org if the cen
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Brian Topping wrote:
> 2) Authenticity of artifacts is validated by control of DNS. The
> current method of getting an artifact into the central repository
> isn't scalable. If you know someone well enough, they put your code
> into the repository. If you don't know someone, your
On 24 Oct 06, at 3:18 PM 24 Oct 06, Brian Topping wrote:
With the snapshots repo down, there was some discussion on IRC.
Joakim mentioned there was some discussion of a resolution that was
"DNS-like, not actual DNS" and it got me thinking DNS might be a
better solution (possibly with RFC
If you use DNS for fault-tolerance, if one repo goes down, it may take
upwards of 15 minutes for the client side DNS cache to clear and use
the new IP: this may be acceptable, depending on your requirements. A
more reliable approach would be to use a load balancer to ping the
distributed caches an
