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Please contact systems@sugarlabs.org if you are interested.
Please contact systems@sugarlabs.org if you are interested.
== System Summary ==
The Sugar Labs Content Delivery Network uses MirrorBrain as a redirector.  The redirector, which lives in a Sugar Labs data center, keeps track of which files are available on which mirror.  When a a user requests a file, the redirector points the user to the correct mirror and automatically starts the file download.
=== Mirrors ===
[[http://mirrors.sugarlabs.org | Mirrors]] are completely passive.  To set up a mirror, an mirror system administrator needs to:
* Set up rsync job to synchronise a copy of the files on downloads.sugarlabs.org onto their local system.
* Alert the Sugar Labs system administrators that they would like their mirror into rotation.
=== Redirector ===
* Register mirror with mirrorbrain.
* mirror probe