Followup on today lists.ovirt.org http outage

[Sandro Bonazzola]

Il 17/06/2014 16:56, Michael Scherer ha scritto:
> Le mardi 17 juin 2014 à 16:17 +0200, Sandro Bonazzola a écrit :
>> Il 17/06/2014 16:13, Michael Scherer ha scritto:
>>> Le mardi 17 juin 2014 à 15:55 +0200, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden a
>>> écrit :
>>>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 03:47:14PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote:
>>>>> Brian pinged me on a failure on lists.ovirt.org around 13h15 UTC. After
>>>>> scratching my head for a while ( since everything was running fine,
>>>>> despites regular Out of memory on the server ), it turned out to be a
>>>>> user trying to get the iso with a download accelerator. I first added
>>>>> more server, but without luck.
>>>>>
>>>>> So as I am more of the kind "shoot first, ask later", I did kill the
>>>>> connexion with iptables, then limit it with iptables ( but with some
>>>>> side effect ), then installed mod_limitipconn to limit to 10 tcp
>>>>> connexion per IP. 
>>>>
>>>> I'm all in favor of this. Maybe we should mention we have mirrors with
>>>> MUCH more bandwith in our README.
>>>
>>> Or maybe we do not need to tell that to people and use a redirector ?
>>> ( like mirrorbrain, etc ).
>>
>> This won't allow to download packages until mirrors are synced.
>> Now yum repo files have mirrorlist pointing to mirrors and baseurl pointing to ovirt.org.
>> Introducing automated redirection won't allow this anymore.
> 
> It work quite fine for fedora. But we indeed to make sure this doesn't
> break stuff for people, especially older setup. I guess we also want to
> still get some download stats.
> 
> But we do not have much issues or risk with rpms, more on iso download,
> as they take more bandwidth and for longer time, and I think there is
> more risk of having a download accelerator for that.
> 
> So what about just make a redirect for iso (if possible, something smart
> enough to not redirect if the mirror is not synced), and keep rpms as
> is ?

If you have something smart enough to not redirect if the mirror is not synced, you can redirect rpms too.
:-)

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