269027 - sentry.pl should be adjusted to also check for overall mirror status

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools :: Bouncer, defect)

Description

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041102 Firefox/1.0RC1 (Debian package 0.99+1.0RC1-3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041102 Firefox/1.0RC1 (Debian package 0.99+1.0RC1-3)

The file status script that checks for availability of files/locations on each
mirror should be updated to also de-activate the entire mirror in the case where
it does not respond or is approaching the limit (takes too long to reply). 
Optimally, the script should be adjusted so that it lowers the rating of a
server that is having difficulty matching requests.

A side thought to this is that we may need another rating column.  We could have
a "default rating" and "current rating" so that the system knows whether or not
to reset the rating back to what it used to be.  Just a thought.  Comment away.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[C.S. Chen]

Some other ideas. When I download files from Mozilla.org download links, the 
bouncer usually redirects me to download sites far away from me geographically. 
I am lived in Taiwan, and I hardly seen download from (much faster to me) 
Taiwanese mirror sites. Because domestic links are generally faster than 
intercontintent/international links, I think it would be better if the bouncer 
can take the client's ip location into mirror select consideration. The ASF's 
Apache httpd download site (http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi) has a similar 
but simpler implement of this idea.

Comment 2

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

Bouncer checks overall mirror status and emails if an entire mirror is not responding because of a timeout or DNS failure.