/me sheds a small tear. That was a clever hack in the days before ubiquitous 1Gb+ connections and when so many supporters were on Internet2. I agree it's no longer meaningful. Thanks for recognizing the bitrot and excising it! -Matt
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 8:45 AM Neil Hanlon <n...@resf.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 12:40 +0200, Adrian Reber wrote: > > > > I will remove Internet2 support from MirrorManager in the next few > > weeks. > > > > The main reason is, that the source for the Internet2 routing tables > > does not exist any more: http://routes.net.internet2.edu/ > > > > It changed a couple of years ago and it seems Fedora was one of the only > > users of that data. They fixed it for us, but the latest ticket I opened > > to access this information was closed with "This service was decomd". > > > > I do not think that the removal of Internet2 support for our users will > > be noticed at all. Removing Internet2 will remove some complexity from > > the code and using ASN and GeoIP should still provide a reasonably close > > mirror for most of out users. > > Sounds like a really good plan to me, especially around removing > complexity in the mirror selection. I cannot > think of any reason the removal should adversely affect users at this > point since as you said, the routing > information is not exactly available anymore. > > I would be interested if there are any mirror admins that are using > Internet2 that would be able to comment on > the health of I2 in 2022. > > > > I will start to update the different components to not expose and rely > > on Internet2 information any more in the next couple of weeks. > > Let me know if you need/want any help testing or working on the removal. > I'm happy to assist however it would > be helpful. > > --Neil > > > > > Let me know if you see any major problems in removing Internet2 support > > from MirrorManager. > > > > Adrian > > _______________________________________________ > > infrastructure mailing list -- infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to > infrastructure-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > > _______________________________________________ > infrastructure mailing list -- infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to > infrastructure-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
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