On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 11:07 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:56:31 -0500 Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:
I think it would work best to use a dedicated Apache module, such as http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/mod_geoip2 rather than add another interface into MirrorManager which otherwise duplicates this. Fedora Infrastructure could easily roll out such a service then, independent of MirrorManager.
We could look at this. Would you folks be willing to repost the below on the infrastructure list and we could start a discussion there? https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
Absolutely, reposting. I think this list is the right place to discuss such things. And I just wonder -- anybody thinks this could be deployed before the F19 is released?
I don't see mod_geoip2 packaged yet, just mod_geoip.
kevin
-- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Kolman [mailto:mkolman@redhat.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 7:24 AM To: mdomsch@fedoraproject.org Cc: vpodzime@redhat.com; dcantrel@redhat.com Subject: MirrorManager GEO IP API
Hi, we've recently added GeoIP support to Anaconda, so that it can automatically preset the language and timezone for users that are online during the installation.
We are currently using the mirror manager API, as it is part of the Fedora infrastructure so users installing fedora are not calling some third-party service and leaking their public addresses all over.
Currently, we basically just use the mirror API like this:
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-19&arch=i386
And use the first country code. As we don't really need all the other data & only care about GeoIP location data without the closest-mirror tweaks MirrorManager does, we wanted to ask - would it be possible to add some simple API just for GeoIP ?
Basically, just an API, that returns the most probable country code for the caller, without the closest mirror tweaks. I think it should also result in less strain on the servers than calling the full API.
We are even willing to supply patches adding this functionality. :)
Best wishes Martin Kolman from the Anaconda team
On Mon, 06 May 2013 14:03:41 +0200 Vratislav Podzimek vpodzime@redhat.com wrote:
On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 11:07 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:56:31 -0500 Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:
I think it would work best to use a dedicated Apache module, such as http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/mod_geoip2 rather than add another interface into MirrorManager which otherwise duplicates this. Fedora Infrastructure could easily roll out such a service then, independent of MirrorManager.
We could look at this. Would you folks be willing to repost the below on the infrastructure list and we could start a discussion there? https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
Absolutely, reposting. I think this list is the right place to discuss such things. And I just wonder -- anybody thinks this could be deployed before the F19 is released?
It's possible.
First step it making sure the needed parts are packaged up.
kevin
https://github.com/mdomsch/geoip-city-wsgi now has the decent start of a trivial lookup. It reads the IP address from the incoming connection, and responds with the JSON-formatted result from the GeoIP City lookup, which includes timezones. Plug this into an apache web server and you're good to go. It doesn't do IPv6 though - the python library doesn't support GeoIP City IPv6 lookups.
-- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Fenzi [mailto:kevin@scrye.com] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 10:35 AM To: Vratislav Podzimek Cc: Domsch, Matt; mkolman@redhat.com; mdomsch@fedoraproject.org; dcantrel@redhat.com; infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: MirrorManager GEO IP API
On Mon, 06 May 2013 14:03:41 +0200 Vratislav Podzimek vpodzime@redhat.com wrote:
On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 11:07 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:56:31 -0500 Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:
I think it would work best to use a dedicated Apache module, such as http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/mod_geoip2 rather than add another interface into MirrorManager which otherwise duplicates this. Fedora Infrastructure could easily roll out such a service then, independent of MirrorManager.
We could look at this. Would you folks be willing to repost the below on the infrastructure list and we could start a discussion there? https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
Absolutely, reposting. I think this list is the right place to discuss such things. And I just wonder -- anybody thinks this could be deployed before the F19 is released?
It's possible.
First step it making sure the needed parts are packaged up.
kevin
On Thu, 9 May 2013 11:50:31 -0500 Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:
https://github.com/mdomsch/geoip-city-wsgi now has the decent start of a trivial lookup. It reads the IP address from the incoming connection, and responds with the JSON-formatted result from the GeoIP City lookup, which includes timezones. Plug this into an apache web server and you're good to go. It doesn't do IPv6 though - the python library doesn't support GeoIP City IPv6 lookups.
Cool. ;)
So, a dumb question here...
Have you looked at using geoclue instead?
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue
Dunno if it works too well or would meet your needs, but I thought I would mention it before we go too far down the road to making our own service.
kevin
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 11:14:52 -0600, Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
On Thu, 9 May 2013 11:50:31 -0500
Dunno if it works too well or would meet your needs, but I thought I would mention it before we go too far down the road to making our own service.
Aren't there privacy concerns about doing IP lookups during installs? Particularly to third parties.
On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 13:04 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 11:14:52 -0600, Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
On Thu, 9 May 2013 11:50:31 -0500
Dunno if it works too well or would meet your needs, but I thought I would mention it before we go too far down the road to making our own service.
Aren't there privacy concerns about doing IP lookups during installs? Particularly to third parties.
That's why we try to deploy and use the solution in the Fedora infrastructure.
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