On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 20 December 2016 at 21:14, Peter Robinson
<pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just thought I'd give some feedback after using Fedora infra over a
> long distance from the data centre.
>
> I'm on the NBN Sky muster satellite [1] from Aus (it's dual stack
> v4/v6 for reference too). Most services are quite usable (koji/wiki is
> fine) but there are some that just don't load at all. bodhi/pkgdb just
> eventually time out, pagure is variable, sometimes is loads some times
> not at all, sometimes I get somewhere in between.
>
> Also I've found that when not on the Telstra network (incumbent telso)
> that you often don't get mirrors at all so adding &country=global to
> the metalink is critical if you actually want to be able to get
> packages/updates at all.
>
> If you want me to do any other testing let me know. Just thought I'd
> give some feedback from a contributor PoV on the other side of the
> world from the core infra.
>
Thanks for this data. We have gotten reports of similar behaviour for
Patrick and I did some testing around caching on web apps and I know
he's fixed a couple of issues there that seems to have helped quite a
bit on some of the apps.
a while but never enough data to see why it is broken. The main
issue
is that we don't have any mirrors in the eastern pacific region. We
haven't had any luck on getting any either over the years :/. I am not
sure how to fix this but it helps that we can at least point out some
of the reasons it could be a problem.
Yes, the lack of mirrors is an issue there, not sure how we can deal
with that. There's a transit issue between some providers in Aus which
doesn't help. Works fine on Telstra and another ISP and then
completely fails on others which is not a great user experience.
Let me know if there's any specific testing I can help with while I'm here.
Peter