On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 14:22 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > 3. The mirrorlist cgi does the following: > > - take repomd.xml from the canonical mirror at redhat.com - get > > timestamp from inside file of the primary.xml.gz entry > > - downlowd repomd.xml from each of the mirrors and compare this value > > - only mirrors where the value is the same are kept > > > this sounds interesting... would there be interest to also feed these > results to a dns server, so that mirrors.fedora.<something> is a > rotating dns between all "validated" mirrors? (this assumes the same > location of the files on all these mirrors obviously) it also generates country-specific files - and I've generally found relying on dns servers to honor TTLs all over the world is a bad idea. > dns probably scales better than a cgi .... not if you have to use the ip to respond with a proper list for that country, or, failing the existence of that country's list - respond with the global one. I've found the relying on dns for anything frequently updating is just asking for agonizing caching issues you can do nothing about and irritated users. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
