2 mirrorlist changes for this week

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 16:15:07 UTC 2007


Matt Domsch wrote:

> 2) If a user isn't resolved by GeoIP, they will be given the global
>    list, but without excluding mirrors who have an Exclusive Country
>    set (e.g. Vasile's server really only wants traffic from .md users,
>    but he sees global users).  This requires a change to
>    mirrorlist_server.py trim_by_client_country() which I haven't made
>    yet, but will look into doing so.  We should make this change to
>    provide better accurate clients to our mirrors to keep their
>    expenses down.  I'll post the patch here for review before implementing.

I'm not sure how invasive this will be but it does sound like something 
we want to keep our mirrors happy.  Maybe seeing the patch first will
be better for deciding if it's too big a change during the freeze.

-Toshio




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