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[Bug 328850] y2/baseinstall uses wrong server
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- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:56:47 -0700 (MST)
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=328850#c9
Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxxxxx> changed:
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--- Comment #9 from Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxxxxx> 2007-11-12 06:56:47 MST ---
"Most close" mirror is relative. Most close in Germany means: mirror from
Germany. More precise IP geolocation of machines inside Germany is
difficult / expensive to obtain.
Still, I have been thinking about solutions in the past. See
https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/opensuse/trunk/tools/download-redirector-v2/redirector/TODO
There is a documented idea to do something like that, and how to
implement it.
It would be a very nice feature for users in the vicinity of a mirror
(like many large universities).
Problem is, at the moment I have serious doubts about accuracy of
network prefixes looked up.
For performance reasons, something like the newly added facility in the
GeoIP country database must suffice, however in previous tests it returned
prefixes that were quite different than reality.
It needs further evaluation if the available data is good enough to be
usable.
Another solution would be a client-side preference for certain mirrors.
Whenever ftp5.gwdg.de is among the list of mirrors that have a certain
file, your client could get it from there. Should be simple to
implement. (And: we could even make this "mirror preference" work with
mirrors which are not registered with us, I think.)
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Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxxxxx> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |ASSIGNED
--- Comment #9 from Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxxxxx> 2007-11-12 06:56:47 MST ---
"Most close" mirror is relative. Most close in Germany means: mirror from
Germany. More precise IP geolocation of machines inside Germany is
difficult / expensive to obtain.
Still, I have been thinking about solutions in the past. See
https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/opensuse/trunk/tools/download-redirector-v2/redirector/TODO
There is a documented idea to do something like that, and how to
implement it.
It would be a very nice feature for users in the vicinity of a mirror
(like many large universities).
Problem is, at the moment I have serious doubts about accuracy of
network prefixes looked up.
For performance reasons, something like the newly added facility in the
GeoIP country database must suffice, however in previous tests it returned
prefixes that were quite different than reality.
It needs further evaluation if the available data is good enough to be
usable.
Another solution would be a client-side preference for certain mirrors.
Whenever ftp5.gwdg.de is among the list of mirrors that have a certain
file, your client could get it from there. Should be simple to
implement. (And: we could even make this "mirror preference" work with
mirrors which are not registered with us, I think.)
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