Hi Skunkers, Jsut wondering, how is website mirroring achieved? I am especially interested in how the DNS if at all is affected by mirroring. Cheers.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:05 PM, John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Skunkers,
Jsut wondering, how is website mirroring achieved? I am especially interested in how the DNS if at all is affected by mirroring.
Mirroring would require that you have an exact replica of the website. This replica would need to be in sync with the main website. So mirroring actually involves rsync-ing (which is actually the most efficient way). You then run a webserver to make your mirror accessible. A mirror is usually published, somehow, from the master site, either by direct url pointing. I think lately they can use GeoIP to accurately determine your location and redirect one to the nearest mirror. As concerns DNS, mirrorname.your.dom.ain is controlled by your DNS servers.... so your DNS admin does that. The person running the master website can determine the name as well, based on their.dom.ain and as such they can control the DNS while you handle the Apache internals (rewrite rules, etc) on the mirror. That's the much I can remember from a previous experience when I did http://lix.in/-9bdfdc.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!
Ehhh...website mirroring is simple... 1. Open the website you want to mirror. 2. Place a mirror in front of your computer screen. 3. Look at the mirrored website The text will be backwards...therefore the DNS is definitely affected because it becomes SND. Claire. On 1/14/11, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:05 PM, John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Skunkers,
Jsut wondering, how is website mirroring achieved? I am especially interested in how the DNS if at all is affected by mirroring.
Mirroring would require that you have an exact replica of the website. This replica would need to be in sync with the main website. So mirroring actually involves rsync-ing (which is actually the most efficient way). You then run a webserver to make your mirror accessible. A mirror is usually published, somehow, from the master site, either by direct url pointing. I think lately they can use GeoIP to accurately determine your location and redirect one to the nearest mirror. As concerns DNS, mirrorname.your.dom.ain is controlled by your DNS servers.... so your DNS admin does that. The person running the master website can determine the name as well, based on their.dom.ain and as such they can control the DNS while you handle the Apache internals (rewrite rules, etc) on the mirror. That's the much I can remember from a previous experience when I did http://lix.in/-9bdfdc.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!
@Claire - this is crap and NOT funny - This is a place people ask questions to get information. You can start a thread with such jokes but don't make the person who asked the question think twice about ever asking a question in this forum again. Humorous, but not appreciated in this context. ./Ok3ch On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Claire Njoki <clairenjoki@gmail.com> wrote:
Ehhh...website mirroring is simple...
1. Open the website you want to mirror. 2. Place a mirror in front of your computer screen. 3. Look at the mirrored website
The text will be backwards...therefore the DNS is definitely affected because it becomes SND.
Claire.
On 1/14/11, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:05 PM, John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Skunkers,
Jsut wondering, how is website mirroring achieved? I am especially interested in how the DNS if at all is affected by mirroring.
Mirroring would require that you have an exact replica of the website. This replica would need to be in sync with the main website. So mirroring actually involves rsync-ing (which is actually the most efficient way). You then run a webserver to make your mirror accessible. A mirror is usually published, somehow, from the master site, either by direct url pointing. I think lately they can use GeoIP to accurately determine your location and redirect one to the nearest mirror. As concerns DNS, mirrorname.your.dom.ain is controlled by your DNS servers.... so your DNS admin does that. The person running the master website can determine the name as well, based on their.dom.ain and as such they can control the DNS while you handle the Apache internals (rewrite rules, etc) on the mirror. That's the much I can remember from a previous experience when I did http://lix.in/-9bdfdc.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!
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aaaiiiii...woiye! On 1/14/11, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
@Claire - this is crap and NOT funny - This is a place people ask questions to get information. You can start a thread with such jokes but don't make the person who asked the question think twice about ever asking a question in this forum again. Humorous, but not appreciated in this context.
./Ok3ch
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Claire Njoki <clairenjoki@gmail.com> wrote:
Ehhh...website mirroring is simple...
1. Open the website you want to mirror. 2. Place a mirror in front of your computer screen. 3. Look at the mirrored website
The text will be backwards...therefore the DNS is definitely affected because it becomes SND.
Claire.
On 1/14/11, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:05 PM, John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Skunkers,
Jsut wondering, how is website mirroring achieved? I am especially interested in how the DNS if at all is affected by mirroring.
Mirroring would require that you have an exact replica of the website. This replica would need to be in sync with the main website. So mirroring actually involves rsync-ing (which is actually the most efficient way). You then run a webserver to make your mirror accessible. A mirror is usually published, somehow, from the master site, either by direct url pointing. I think lately they can use GeoIP to accurately determine your location and redirect one to the nearest mirror. As concerns DNS, mirrorname.your.dom.ain is controlled by your DNS servers.... so your DNS admin does that. The person running the master website can determine the name as well, based on their.dom.ain and as such they can control the DNS while you handle the Apache internals (rewrite rules, etc) on the mirror. That's the much I can remember from a previous experience when I did http://lix.in/-9bdfdc.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!
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Very funny Claire :-) On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Claire Njoki <clairenjoki@gmail.com> wrote:
Ehhh...website mirroring is simple...
1. Open the website you want to mirror. 2. Place a mirror in front of your computer screen. 3. Look at the mirrored website
The text will be backwards...therefore the DNS is definitely affected because it becomes SND.
Claire.
On 1/14/11, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:05 PM, John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Skunkers,
Jsut wondering, how is website mirroring achieved? I am especially interested in how the DNS if at all is affected by mirroring.
Mirroring would require that you have an exact replica of the website. This replica would need to be in sync with the main website. So mirroring actually involves rsync-ing (which is actually the most efficient way). You then run a webserver to make your mirror accessible. A mirror is usually published, somehow, from the master site, either by direct url pointing. I think lately they can use GeoIP to accurately determine your location and redirect one to the nearest mirror. As concerns DNS, mirrorname.your.dom.ain is controlled by your DNS servers.... so your DNS admin does that. The person running the master website can determine the name as well, based on their.dom.ain and as such they can control the DNS while you handle the Apache internals (rewrite rules, etc) on the mirror. That's the much I can remember from a previous experience when I did http://lix.in/-9bdfdc.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!
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Kenyan Cops should be better trained in Hand To Hand or close quarters combat. NUF SAID!
Compare that with how cool headed american cops handle their biz. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNNz5kl4w-A&NR=1
depends on what you need ;) static websites can easily be mirrored with (e.g.) HTTrack Website Copier. if you have a database backend export - rsync - import. and rsync static files (as long as you do not have absolute urls in your site) as i said it very much depends on your system On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:05 PM, John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Skunkers,
Jsut wondering, how is website mirroring achieved? I am especially interested in how the DNS if at all is affected by mirroring.
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-- Best Regards,
Claire, I am a fan of yours so I appreciate your sense of humour. I also appreciate where Okechukwu is coming from so I will sit this one out. (I hope u kiss and make up!) Christian, I am not implementing any solution,I'm just trying to understand a scenario such as the wikileaks one where the 'master' site was offline but the mirrors were online. So who or what decides when to direct traffic to a mirror,which mirror and how is this implemented? I have a feeling Wash has answered me but he was speaking latin. So Wash, one more time in English please? :-) On 1/14/11, Christian Ledermann <christian.ledermann@gmail.com> wrote:
depends on what you need ;)
static websites can easily be mirrored with (e.g.) HTTrack Website Copier.
if you have a database backend export - rsync - import. and rsync static files (as long as you do not have absolute urls in your site)
as i said it very much depends on your system
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:05 PM, John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Skunkers,
Jsut wondering, how is website mirroring achieved? I am especially interested in how the DNS if at all is affected by mirroring.
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@clair - lol @okechukwu -relax brother :)) *------------------------------------------------ I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference ------------------------------------------------* On 14 January 2011 17:56, John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
Claire, I am a fan of yours so I appreciate your sense of humour. I also appreciate where Okechukwu is coming from so I will sit this one out. (I hope u kiss and make up!)
Christian, I am not implementing any solution,I'm just trying to understand a scenario such as the wikileaks one where the 'master' site was offline but the mirrors were online. So who or what decides when to direct traffic to a mirror,which mirror and how is this implemented? I have a feeling Wash has answered me but he was speaking latin. So Wash, one more time in English please? :-)
On 1/14/11, Christian Ledermann <christian.ledermann@gmail.com> wrote:
depends on what you need ;)
static websites can easily be mirrored with (e.g.) HTTrack Website Copier.
if you have a database backend export - rsync - import. and rsync static files (as long as you do not have absolute urls in your site)
as i said it very much depends on your system
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:05 PM, John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Skunkers,
Jsut wondering, how is website mirroring achieved? I am especially interested in how the DNS if at all is affected by mirroring.
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:56 PM, John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
Claire, I am a fan of yours so I appreciate your sense of humour. I also appreciate where Okechukwu is coming from so I will sit this one out. (I hope u kiss and make up!)
Christian, I am not implementing any solution,I'm just trying to understand a scenario such as the wikileaks one where the 'master' site was offline but the mirrors were online. So who or what decides when to direct traffic to a mirror,which mirror and how is this implemented? I have a feeling Wash has answered me but he was speaking latin. So Wash, one more time in English please? :-)
John Doe, I have never bothered to read wikileaks because by the time it was hot, it was also under siege by you-know-who so I did not experience the aspect of mirroring they used. If you tell me the behaviour I can probably tell you how it was implemented. I am not familiar with their context. Care to explain with examples, and I do the delving in on the implementation technique?:) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!
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Christian Ledermann -
Claire Njoki -
James Nzomo -
John Doe -
Kebaya Mwamba -
Odhiambo Washington -
Okechukwu -
Rocky Mbithi