On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Bangladeshi CentOS Mirror Maintainer [BD-SERVERS.NET] centos-org@bauani.org wrote:
Hello All
If the CentOS Master Mirror want to announce and meeting, the date can't be fixed by getting input from member of list.
I am not sure about that. Getting to know the timeframe which people have and if they are interested at all helps a lot when determining a date for such an event.
We, the maintainer of CentOS mirror around is a part of CentOS family and we are human being. Everyone has their own work schedule. Like in 6th October, Internet Society [ISOC] has conference in Bangladesh for first time and I wish to join the event. 12th October is my birthday etc etc.
So it is neither the 11th, nor the 12th nor the 13th :)
I guess weekend is out of the question anyway?
I then propose Monday, October 18th(!) at 20:00 UTC,
So it would be better fix a date and announce it via list. If most people don't agree to join on said date, the date of event can change 1 to 3 days plus and minus.
See above.
From my point of view, it seems if the GeoIP database of CentOS is up
to date, currently problem might solve in most case.
It is up to date (well, from now on it will, at least). One problem is that the data sometimes really is off, so machines in the UK are flagged as being in the US or Canada and things like that.
Second: It doesn't help in cases when you'd like all the machines in your DC to hit the mirror which also is in that DC. If you aren't the admin of all of those machines, using the same AS or /16 would be great. And that is what our mirroring system cannot do.
Among other distribution, CentOS mirror maintaining system is the most easy system in current scenario.
Not really :)
If we want to move from current system, then ASN based system to determine closest mirror might work.Though It also have pro & cons. So my suggestion is to work with current system and find out where is the problem so that the problem can be fixed.
The problem is that we can *only* do GeoIP. The granularity of that isn't fine enough at times (see above or other examples in this thread).
Ralph