On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:07:21PM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 21:40 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > gist is, we're actually proxypassing from the proxy servers to the app > > > servers. The problem becomes, we need our US users to magically hit a > > > US proxy server, and then be proxypassed to a US app server; likewise we > > > need EU users to magially hit a .EU proxy server and be proxypassed > > > to a EU app server. > > > > > > So it's not a mod_proxy_balancer problem as much as it is a DNS > > > challenge - we want different answers from DNS depending on the user's > > > location. And that's always fun... > > > > CentOS already does this for their mirror system. > > Sure, we do too with mirrormanager. For long-lived requests, it makes > all sorts of sense. For very short-lived requests, where the > connection setup/teardown time dominates, less interesting. > Its worth noting that perhaps its time to look at alternative proxy frontend. Last time I looked there were either good balancers, or good cachers, but not the both. But its quite possible we've outgrown our simple apache setup. -Mike _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
