MirrorManager GEO IP API

[Vratislav Podzimek]

On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 11:07 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:56:31 -0500
> <Matt_Domsch at 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
> --
> > 
> > --
> > Matt Domsch
> > Technology Strategist
> > Dell | Office of the CTO
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin Kolman [mailto:mkolman at redhat.com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 7:24 AM
> > To: mdomsch at fedoraproject.org
> > Cc: vpodzime at redhat.com; dcantrel at 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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Vratislav Podzimek

Anaconda Rider | Red Hat, Inc. | Brno - Czech Republic