A cronjon now exists on the download vm for keeping an up-to-date list:
/root/bin/gnu-mirror-geoip-sync.pl
I still need to implement a file-refreshing feature for the
Apache2::Geo::Mirror module.
Karl Berry wrote:
One problem here is that the Apache2::Geo::Mirror module only loads
the mirror list upon initialization of Apache,
Wow. That would explain a lot of things where users keep reporting
outdated mirrors no longer in the list, etc.
I think the most sane thing to do here is subclass Apache2::Geo::Mirror
and add a simple feature that checks the last modified time of the
/usr/local/share/GeoIP/gnu-ftpmirror.txt file; if it changes, reload the
We'd want to do the same thing for the existing non-gnu redirector too,
of course. Ideally even pass that fix back upstream, if there still is
an upstream ...
Thanks for all,
k
