On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 10:52 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 10:45 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 21:02 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > This was most likely caused by some issues with out proxy servers this > > > evening. We were adding 3 new proxy servers into the rotation and there > > > were some config issues with some of them. ;( > > > > > > This would have only affected some folks in North America sporadically, > > > (when they happened to hit a proxy that wasn't working right) not > > > everyone. > > > > > > Sorry this happened, everything should be back to normal now. > > > > I think it would make sense to do a second ping to some other server if > > the first one to fedoraproject.org fails, for robustness. Maybe to > > redhat.com, or something that should never be down like google.com (my > > vote), or to someplace that promises not to track users, like > > duckduckgo.com (hardly matters much for a connectivity check?). > > We could always use the Google servers that Android uses by default, > instead of Fedora :) Those would be pretty well guaranteed to be up... You might use both so you have less chances of false positive, but *please* make it uninstallable, or easily disableable. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
