On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:34:17PM +0100, Benji Weber wrote:
On 17/09/2007, Dr. Peter Poeml
wrote: No, the redirector had nothing to do with the failure of software.opensuse.org. The latter is a different host (since a while), providing the search interface stuff. (software.o.o was previously served by the redirector.)
The redirector worked just fine over the weekend.
Yes, so it would seem. although a large number of people were still using software.opensuse.org that I believe used to be a redirector prior to the deployment of the new web interface. - I'm not sure this change was communicated clearly enough, as we need to always use download.opensuse.org now in that case.
The points regarding necessary availability still stand even though it was in fact up though. :)
Sure. There are some interdependencies, which we should review carefully, and minimize where possible. * 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 :-) * software.opensuse.org relies on the availability of the internal buildservice backend, for the search and ymp generation. Thus, when the buildservice hangs, the software.opensuse.org search hangs as well. This is unfortunate IMO, but I don't know if there is a way around this. I don't know if YaST/zypper depend on the availability of software.opensuse.org or the search on software.opensuse.org. If so, how? For ymp generation? * software.opensuse.org/repositories/ redirects straight to the redirector. This kind of redirection is what is (should) only be happening when this obsolete URLs are used. Obviously, it can only work if software.o.o is responding at all. Peter -- "WARNING: This bug is visible to non-employees. Please be respectful!" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development