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


From: Michael J. Flickinger
Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] randy kobes passed away -> ftpmirror redirector
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:23:57 -0500
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A cronjon now exists on the download vm for keeping an up-to-date list:
/root/bin/gnu-mirror-geoip-sync.pl

I still need to implement a file-refreshing feature for the Apache2::Geo::Mirror module.

Karl Berry wrote:
    One problem here is that the Apache2::Geo::Mirror module only loads
the mirror list upon initialization of Apache,
Wow.  That would explain a lot of things where users keep reporting
outdated mirrors no longer in the list, etc.

    I think the most sane thing to do here is subclass Apache2::Geo::Mirror
and add a simple feature that checks the last modified time of the /usr/local/share/GeoIP/gnu-ftpmirror.txt file; if it changes, reload the
We'd want to do the same thing for the existing non-gnu redirector too,
of course.  Ideally even pass that fix back upstream, if there still is
an upstream ...

Thanks for all,
k






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