Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] randy kobes passed away -> ftpmirror redirector

[Michael J. Flickinger]

Here's a copy of the mirror list used by the module:

http://mirror.clarkson.edu/gnu/ us
http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/gnu/ us
http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gnu/ ca
http://mirror.rit.edu/gnu/ us
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/gnu/ftp/gnu/ us
http://mirror.moustachemedias.com/gnu/ fr
http://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ se
http://mirror.ibcp.fr/pub/gnu/ fr
http://ftp.u-tx.net/gnu/ de
http://www.artfiles.org/gnu.org/ de
http://gnu.xl-mirror.nl/ nl
http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/gnu/ pt
http://mirror.lihnidos.org/GNU/ftp/gnu/ si
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gnu/ au
http://ftp.club.cc.cmu.edu/pub/gnu/ us
http://mirror.bjtu.edu.cn/gnu/ cn
http://ftp.download-by.net/gnu/gnu/ dk
http://mirrors.nfsi.pt/gnu/ pt
http://ftp.wayne.edu/pub/gnu/ us
http://ftp.easynet.be/ftp/gnu/ be
http://mirror.veriportal.com/gnu/ tr
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ ie
http://devlinux.net/software/gnu/ us
http://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/gnu/ pl
http://ftp.tpnet.pl/vol/d12/gnu/ pl
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/gnusrc/ at
http://ftp.igh.cnrs.fr/pub/gnu/ fr
http://mirror.yongbok.net/gnu/ us
http://core.ring.gr.jp/pub/GNU/ jp
http://mirrors.ecvps.com/gnu/ us
http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gnu/ de
http://mirror.team-cymru.org/gnu/ us
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ gb
http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/gnu/ gr
http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/ us
http://gnu.mirror.iweb.com/gnu/ ca
http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/gnu/ dk
http://gnu.mirrors.pair.com/gnu/ us
http://gnuftp.uib.no/ no
http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/gnu/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ fi
http://ftp.twaren.net/Unix/GNU/gnu/ tw
http://gnu.c3sl.ufpr.br/ftp/ br
http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/gnu/pub/gnu/ us
http://mirror-cybernet.lums.edu.pk/pub/gnu/ pk
http://gnu.spinellicreations.com/gnu/ us

It looks like I need to fix it so that 
http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/gnu/pub/gnu/ isn't in the US...

On 03/02/2011 08:09 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks much for setting up the geoip/mirmon cron.  All that looks good.
>
> However, I just went to http://gnu-ftpmirror.savannah.gnu.org
> again and this time was redirected to http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz.
>
> I was always under the impression that the thing chose a mirror from
> your country, if there was such a mirror and it could determine your
> country.  The Apache2::GeoIP documentation implies as much, though I
> don't see it in the code.  Maybe Sylvain removed that part for the
> nongnu redirector, since there were so few mirrors?
>
> > From Randy's host, I was always redirected to a US site (my IP addr is
> certainly US), and I don't recall being sent to a non-US host from the
> http://gnu-ftpmirror.savannah.gnu.org test before either, although I
> only tried a couple of times.
>
> Does the thing do any useful logging -- e.g., incoming IP addr, country
> as determined, and chosen mirror?  I didn't see it ...
>
> Thanks,
> k
>