We're in the process of transitioning packages.ros.org hosting from Willow to OSU OSL.  When we make that transition they do have a couple of locations where they are mirrored. 

For location specific mirrors we'd need someone who could donate a lot of bandwidth and work with us to make sure that the mirrors stay current.  

For mirroring with a fallback on a local network, I would recommend just using squid.  We use it on our build machines which repeatedly redownload packages and it makes a huge difference.

Tully


On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Bil Morris <bill@iheartengineering.com> wrote:
We have an internal mirror of packages.ros.org that we are using to
build ISOs.
To keep configurations from breaking we need to have packages.ros.org
resolve locally to our internal mirror,
however if our mirror is out of sync we would like to pass through the
request to the real packages.ros.org.

Is there an alternate name for packages.ros.org? us.packages.ros.org?

Is it worth considering listing external mirrors in dns?
eu.packages.ros.org, asia.packages.ros.org, etc
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