Per Jessen wrote:
Without having thought it through - isn't that pretty much what the scanner does today? it checks a mirror to see what is available, if an address is bad or a certificate doesn't work, the availability is updated. A poorly configured mirror should not interfere with the proper working of the rest of mirrorbrain.
It would however be nice to be a little more fine-grained and record which parts of a mirror are working:
ipv4, http ipv4, https ipv6, http ipv6, https
In comparison to the current setup, this is just like having four mirrors instead of one. Maybe that is the way to look at the design.
Correction - no, of course not, we already keep track of different access ways for each mirror - rsync, ftp, http. Maybe just add some more variations? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (4.2°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes