Followup on today lists.ovirt.org http outage

[Eyal Edri]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Scherer" <mscherer at redhat.com>
> To: infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 5:56:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Followup on today lists.ovirt.org http outage
> 
> 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 ?

i wonder if we can setup some sort of a KB or wiki to include these outages info
and resolution, for future reference, what do you think?

e.

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