On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 02:41:12PM +0100, Damian Myerscough wrote:
Sounds good Matt,
I had a little idea for
mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist why not
add mod_geoip and have the mirrors list broken down so that users
connecting from Germany get mirrors located in Germany and not
mirrors in England (also give them the opportunity to download from
a mirror outside their country). That's just a little thought, it
should help with the load slightly.
The mirrorlists returned to yum do use geoip plus other heuristics
(e.g. if there are fewer than 3 mirrors in a country, return the
global list). So we're good there.
The web pages under /publiclist don't though. They do list the
country a mirror is in, but they list all the mirrors, currently
194. :-) Maybe it's too long a page for people to crawl through to
find their country; I'm open to page design suggestions. But I don't
want to keep per-country static pages for these; I do per-country
per-repo static text files for the yum mirrorlists as a backup, and
there are nearly 4300 such files. I don't want to duplicate all that
again for the /publiclist pages...
Thanks,
Matt
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