"Nikolay Derkach" writes:

Hi,

(found on #opensuse.ru IRC channel) For some reason download.o.o redirects users with Russian IPs to to ftp.twaren.net, which is in Taiwan. Please fix it.

Do we have enough Russian mirrors to redirect to instead?

By the way, this mirror is badly broken - many directories and files are missing.

We redirect on a per file basis, so this shouldn't be a problem in general, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

Hi Nikolay, On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:13:37PM +0400, Nikolay Derkach wrote:

Hi,

(found on #opensuse.ru IRC channel) For some reason download.o.o redirects users with Russian IPs to to ftp.twaren.net, which is in Taiwan. Please fix it.

There is nothing to fix, if the Taiwanese mirror is reasonably closer than, lets say, a mirror in North America. Russian IP addresses get redirected to Asian mirrors if possible (if possible even to Russian mirrors but that is not always possible). If you tell me that you have much better access to, lets say, North American mirrors than to Taiwanese or other Asian mirrors, please let me know (write to ftpadmin at suse dot de) and I might be able to rethink the mirror selection scheme and make it deal better with your situation. This is some kind of input that we depend on that we can get only from local people.

By the way, this mirror is badly broken - many directories and files are missing.

What do you mean by "missing"? Could you give a specific example? It is hard to fix something when you only know that "some files out of 500.000" are missing, and you don't know where to start looking. Don't expect a mirror to be complete. Especially for the /repository tree, you should always access it via download.opensuse.org/repositories. If a mirror "breaks" (which can always happen in various different ways), it'll either be disabled a few minutes later, if it doesn't reply, or if it looses files (like in accidental removal), it'll be noticed by the *complete* scan done every 24 hours, and in some other cases we (and the mirror admin himself also) depend on input like yours. In general, please contact ftpadmin at suse dot de if you observe irregularities. There shouldn't be anything wrong with ftp.twaren.net at this time. If you still see problems with this particular mirror, or any other mirror, could you please let me know? If yes, I'll dig into it further. AND, finally, the very best you can do is: Ask the yast team, libzypp team, distribution managers to implement http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover because it would fix ALL those problems you are seeing resp. you have been seeing reported on the #opensuse.ru channel. Thanks, Peter -- "WARNING: This bug is visible to non-employees. Please be respectful!" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development