[CentOS-mirror] Offer new US mirror, but use Cloudflare for proxy?

Sun Mar 28 06:06:22 UTC 2021
Russell Jones <arjones85 at gmail.com>

Thanks all,

I am not too concerned about Cloudflare, I am proxying only, not caching.
Its this terrible ATT gateway that starts struggling at 500 or so active
sessions.

No worries if not wanted, just thought I'd offer :-)

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 12:46 AM Christopher Hawker <email at chrishawker.com.au>
wrote:

> I do not believe the Project would accept a mirror that is proxied via
> Cloudflare. This is due to the fact that the requests are not being served
> directly by the mirror. The Project also uses GeoIP lookups to determine
> your mirror location and the GeoIP information for Cloudflare would
> (almost) with 100% surety not match the details for your host.
>
> Furthermore, if your router cannot handle 200+ connections on a gigabit
> link then your network would not be of a type suitable for providing a
> mirror. By the sounds of it, this is not being hosted in a proper
> datacentre and while the Project appreciates your offer, it may not be
> acceptable due to the potential unreliability.
>
> Regards,
> Christopher Hawker
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 28 Mar 2021, at 2:42 pm, Russell Jones <arjones85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Hello admin,
> >
> > I would like to offer a new US CentOS mirror, but I will need to use
> Cloudflare to proxy the requests. I have a gigabit up/down connection that
> will be stable, however the ATT provided gateway/router/modem combo chokes
> on a large amount of different IP addresses coming in at once. I have found
> that if I route the traffic through Cloudflare, it can handle the 200 or so
> unique IP's Cloudflare uses without an issue. I am currently hosting EPEL
> and Fedora Buffet public mirrors without any problems this way.
> >
> > Any issues with this setup?
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
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