Re: mirrorlist plugin broken?

[seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu>]

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 20:12 +0200, Florian La Roche wrote:
> > > dns probably scales better than a cgi ....
> > 
> > not if you have to use the ip to respond with a proper list for that
> > country, or, failing the existence of that country's list - respond with
> > the global one.
> 
> The check-script to only offer working mirros is great. I'd hope that
> also the old locations are updated with working mirrorlist files.

that's up to other folks than me.


> I still think we should just provide working mirrorlist files, but not
> add geoip into the servers within FedoraProject.org. I though we want to
> keep running on Open Source solutions here...

What's not open source about geoip? The software is open at the very
least, it's in extras.

I read through the rules there appears to be a functional free version -
which is what we're using - the one that's in extras.

According to extras it is GPL'd.

-sv