On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Dr. Peter Poeml wrote:
* download.opensuse.org redirects (since recently) to the web frontend on software.opensuse.org for requests to '/'. Requests to '/*' go to the downlaod redirector. As far as availability of e.g. the update repository and other repositories is concerned, it doesn't depend on software.o.o.
The redirector depends on a mirror database server, but can live without it for a certain period, until the network connection is sufficiently congested so it becomes to slow to respond. The latter effect can be mitigated somewhat by fallback mirrors to redirect to in the error case (to be implemented).
Did we experience any availability problem since the current redirector is in place (about March)? I can't remember of any outage of the "over the weekend" kind...
I can assure you that I'm against all infrastructure changes which add more dependencies than necessary :-)
Well, this setup has one problem I experienced. For new packages the installation may fail, as meta files are up-to-date (from suse server directly), but the download is redirected to ftp5.gwdg.de (for me) and gwdg was not yet up-to-date. This can happy anytime, for everybody and every repository. Can the redirector be dynamic and introduce a little grace interval (15-30 minutes I think) for new packages? In the grace interval the redirector should redirect to SUSE download server for packages also instead of mirror. Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org