/me sheds a small tear. That was a clever hack in the days before
ubiquitous 1Gb+ connections and when so many supporters were on Internet2.
I agree it's no longer meaningful. Thanks for recognizing the bitrot and
excising it!
-Matt
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 8:45 AM Neil Hanlon wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 12:40 +0200, Adrian Reber wrote:
> >
> > I will remove Internet2 support from MirrorManager in the next few
> > weeks.
> >
> > The main reason is, that the source for the Internet2 routing tables
> > does not exist any more: http://routes.net.internet2.edu/
> >
> > It changed a couple of years ago and it seems Fedora was one of the only
> > users of that data. They fixed it for us, but the latest ticket I opened
> > to access this information was closed with "This service was decomd".
> >
> > I do not think that the removal of Internet2 support for our users will
> > be noticed at all. Removing Internet2 will remove some complexity from
> > the code and using ASN and GeoIP should still provide a reasonably close
> > mirror for most of out users.
>
> Sounds like a really good plan to me, especially around removing
> complexity in the mirror selection. I cannot
> think of any reason the removal should adversely affect users at this
> point since as you said, the routing
> information is not exactly available anymore.
>
> I would be interested if there are any mirror admins that are using
> Internet2 that would be able to comment on
> the health of I2 in 2022.
> >
> > I will start to update the different components to not expose and rely
> > on Internet2 information any more in the next couple of weeks.
>
> Let me know if you need/want any help testing or working on the removal.
> I'm happy to assist however it would
> be helpful.
>
> --Neil
>
> >
> > Let me know if you see any major problems in removing Internet2 support
> > from MirrorManager.
> >
> > Adrian
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