Re: [Dev] New Parabola mirror: ftp.acc.umu.se

[Niklas Edmundsson]

On Sun, 3 Jun 2018, Luke Shumaker wrote:



I'm sorry!  I missed this part of the email; I thought fauno added you
guys to the mirror list.  You should be in parabolaweb and the wiki
now, and the `pacman-mirrorlist` package pretty soon.


Looks good, thanks!



GeoIP is on the ToDo list though;
"// TODO: weight by geoip or something?" has been in the code ever
since the very first commit.


Among the motivations for running ftp.acc.umu.se are the aim to
provide excellent service to our region, so we strongly recommend
using a geoip aware download redirector. Mirrorbits
https://github.com/etix/mirrorbits comes highly recommended by many
projects that we mirror.


Thanks for the recommendation, I'll look in to mirrorbits.


The most straight-forward way for package managers might be to just do 
an initial request (fetching a list/index file for example) and then 
aim future requests for that session towards the server that served 
the index file. You don't need file-by-file geoip perfectness for the 
package manager stuff, and it's usually smaller files meaning that the 
overhead of always following redirects might become painful.


For website-stuff it might be fancy to use the JSON capabilities if 
Mirrorbits to be able to show which mirror might be serving the 
download, or allow the user to choose, etc. But the most common way to 
do it is just to link to the mirrorbits download URL.



/Nikke
--
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
 Niklas Edmundsson, Admin @ {acc,hpc2n}.umu.se  | ni...@acc.umu.se
---
 Remove tongue from cheek before chewing.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
___
Dev mailing list
Dev@lists.parabola.nu
https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev

Re: [Dev] New Parabola mirror: ftp.acc.umu.se

[Luke Shumaker]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 15:33:47 -0400,
Niklas Edmundsson wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, fauno wrote:
> 
> > Niklas Edmundsson  writes:
> > 
> >> Academic Computer Club (ACC), Umeå University, Sweden hereby announces
> >> the intent to provide a mirror of Parabola GNU/Linux-libre.
> >> ftp.acc.umu.se has 20 Gbit dedicated connectivity to SUNET, and enjoys
> >> excellent peering towards Europe and US via NORDUnet.
> > 
> > that's awesome!  thanks!
> 
> Appreciation is all well and good, but we're still not listed on
> https://www.parabola.nu/mirrorlist/all/ nor on
> https://wiki.parabola.nu/Get_Parabola ...

I'm sorry!  I missed this part of the email; I thought fauno added you
guys to the mirror list.  You should be in parabolaweb and the wiki
now, and the `pacman-mirrorlist` package pretty soon.

> Btw, the "standard" download links on
> https://wiki.parabola.nu/Get_Parabola seems to simply do round-robin
> between the available mirrors... While it offloads the main download
> server, it doesn't make full use of regional mirrors.

It's not quite round robin; it keeps track of last-sync information,
and only chooses from mirrors that have synced sufficiently recently
to have the requested file.  GeoIP is on the ToDo list though;
"// TODO: weight by geoip or something?" has been in the code ever
since the very first commit.

> Among the motivations for running ftp.acc.umu.se are the aim to
> provide excellent service to our region, so we strongly recommend
> using a geoip aware download redirector. Mirrorbits
> https://github.com/etix/mirrorbits comes highly recommended by many
> projects that we mirror.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll look in to mirrorbits.

Once again, I'm sorry we dropped the ball on this!

-- 
Happy hacking,
~ Luke Shumaker
___
Dev mailing list
Dev@lists.parabola.nu
https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev

Re: [Dev] New Parabola mirror: ftp.acc.umu.se

[fauno]

Niklas Edmundsson  writes:

> Academic Computer Club (ACC), Umeå University, Sweden hereby announces 
> the intent to provide a mirror of Parabola GNU/Linux-libre. 
> ftp.acc.umu.se has 20 Gbit dedicated connectivity to SUNET, and enjoys 
> excellent peering towards Europe and US via NORDUnet.

that's awesome!  thanks!


signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
___
Dev mailing list
Dev@lists.parabola.nu
https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev