On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 11:07 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:56:31 -0500
<Matt_Domsch(a)Dell.com> wrote:
> I think it would work best to use a dedicated Apache module, such as
>
http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/mod_geoip2 rather than add another
> interface into MirrorManager which otherwise duplicates this. Fedora
> Infrastructure could easily roll out such a service then, independent
> of MirrorManager.
We could look at this. Would you folks be willing to repost the below
on the infrastructure list and we could start a discussion there?
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure Absolutely,
reposting. I think this list is the right place to discuss
such things. And I just wonder -- anybody thinks this could be deployed
before the F19 is released?
I don't see mod_geoip2 packaged yet, just mod_geoip.
kevin
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> Matt Domsch
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Kolman [mailto:mkolman@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 7:24 AM
> To: mdomsch(a)fedoraproject.org
> Cc: vpodzime(a)redhat.com; dcantrel(a)redhat.com
> Subject: MirrorManager GEO IP API
>
> Hi,
> we've recently added GeoIP support to Anaconda, so that it can
> automatically preset the language and timezone for users that are
> online during the installation.
>
> We are currently using the mirror manager API, as it is part of the
> Fedora infrastructure so users installing fedora are not calling some
> third-party service and leaking their public addresses all over.
>
> Currently, we basically just use the mirror API like this:
>
>
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-19&arch=i386
>
> And use the first country code. As we don't really need all the other
> data & only care about GeoIP location data without the closest-mirror
> tweaks MirrorManager does, we wanted to ask - would it be possible to
> add some simple API just for GeoIP ?
>
> Basically, just an API, that returns the most probable country code
> for the caller, without the closest mirror tweaks. I think it should
> also result in less strain on the servers than calling the full API.
>
> We are even willing to supply patches adding this functionality. :)
>
> Best wishes
> Martin Kolman
> from the Anaconda team
>
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