Re: MetaBUG Streaming

On Mar 17, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 07:36:02AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote:
>
>> None the less, at least doing the homework for figuring out ways to
>> sharing the load seems wise even if it is never actually needed or
>> used. It just seems better than being unprepared...
>
> I haven't looked yet, but hopefully there will be a way to distribute
> the streams to mirrors. If that's feasible, then I could pull to my
> server in Phoenix and rebroadcast from here. Then we could set up
> round-robin DNS and/or regional (streaming.az.us.metabug.org).

There is a relay feature to DSS, which may or may not allow us to
stream and re-broadcast to a mirror at the same time. I'll look into
this as time permits. Darrin, would you be willing to setup DSS on a
server if this is possible?

> If archived presentations become bandwidth hogs I can mirror those,
> too.
> Or I can just host the archives from the start to share some of the
> bandwidth (I'm not using nearly what I'm paying for at this time).
> Another thought would be bittorrent, hopefully with each local BUG
> providing a seed.

I'm sure merdely would appreciate a mirror to the archives.

> I think it's worth thinking about in advance, but I doubt we'll have a
> problem for a while. Actually, I hope I'm wrong, and it's a problem
> from
> the start. ;)

Agreed.

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Jason Dixon
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