572079 - Check Bouncer GeoIP settings

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 581979

(Webtools :: Bouncer, defect)

Description

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

From IRC:

"I'm noticing that the Firefox download page seems to be selecting download mirrors that are very far away from users, in the US I'm getting MOSTLY mirrors from other continents when I click on the download link, resulting in very slow downloads.

[...]

Are there any plans to tweak this? I noticed while searching that it was generating a good number of support requests."

Can we make sure we have reasonable geoip settings? What's the percentage that we currently send through geoip?

Would it make sense for us to change our geoip algorithm? At the moment, I think it goes something like this:

- geoip yes/no? only a percentage of requests gets geoip "treatment", if no: random mirror
- if yes: determine geo region, get list of mirrors for that region
- if list is empty: random mirror
- if list is not empty: random mirror out of that list.

We could, perhaps, grab a list and augment it with random (or "regionally close" or "network-close") mirrors to make up for too few mirrors in some regions (if that's the reason for our initial geoip yes/no decision).