Screenshots

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A plain redirect that is issued by the server:

Courtesy of Adrian Reber from Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, there is an illustrative screenshot that visualizes the efficacy of mirror selection. The world map shows accesses to their openSUSE mirror by country (live view). In openSUSE's MirrorBrain configuration, this mirror is set up to receive German, Danish, Polish, and Indian requests. The background is that India has bad connectivity to neighbouring countries, but good connection to German and US mirrors. Therefore, a few German and US mirrors were configured to serve India. The screenshot of the world map demonstrates this for the mirror of the Esslingen University of Applied Sciences. Note that if a mirror in India becomes available, it would automatically be preferred, and the other mirrors become fallback mirrors.

Next, a console log showing how the server replies with a metalink. The client and server can negotiate this transparently, which we imitate by using cURL here. Also note the segment-wise hashes contained in the metalink, which allow the client to verify transfered contend already while in transit.

The following mirror list is generated live, per client and per file:

Autogenerated list of all mirrors hosting a selected subtree of a file tree:

A mirror's metadata being edited with the mb edit commandline tool. It opens the data in the editor of your choice: