On 2010-04-08 06:23, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angenendt@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all you mirror people out there,
today I'd like to present a small poll to you, a questionnaire if you like.
a) Which mirror does *NOT* want to carry the DVD isos?
Only one mirror does not want to but would - not bad, that was what I wanted to hear ...
b) Who of you pull with machines where the IP address is different from the host from where you offer the mirror? Which IP address pulls for which mirror if your addresses differ?
Those weren't that many either.
I didn't bother responding to the earlier poll, since the defaults were appropriate for us. (I.e. we carry the DVD isos, and have one IP address.)
In your opinion, would you rather go with password based acls or with ip based acls?
We would prefer to stick with IP-based ACL's, as this would require no change at our end.
If there's not that many mirrors which don't pull from the IP they are serving from, the ip based acls can be calculated "on the fly" with one more field in the database for machines which have a different puller.
Password based ACLs on the other hand could break older, non-maintained, but working setups - but they are easier to implement and less error prone.
Or also older, maintained and working setups where the owners are either too busy to make changes or don't want to fix what ain't broke! :)
But seriously, if you do decide to implement password-based ACL's (as some seem to prefer), could this be done as an optional alternative to IP-based, for those where IP-based isn't practical? That way, the silent majority could just stick with the status quo, while those that want something different have that option.