Next steps to get RPM Fusion running (V2)

[Oliver Falk]

Adrian Reber wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 09:06:20AM +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
>>>> - back a few weeks ago you iirc said that we need to be able to 
>>>> adjust  DNS quickly in case the machine goes down; that's not solved 
>>>> yet
>>> No, it is not. We need a another machine running the mirrorlist which
>>> would then get the necessary data from the main mirrormanager instance.
>>> And in a case of a failure we need someone who can changes the DNS entry
>>> very fast.
>> Why not having a second mirrormanager running on another machine and  
>> have in DNS 2 A records?
> 
> I just tested it and it works. I had two entries in DNS; one pointing to
> a not existing host and another to an existing. Depending on the answer
> from the DNS yum first connects to the existing host and everything just
> works. If it connects to the non existing host it times out and then
> goes to the existing host. I am surprised that it works.

Great. Trying is better than guessing, right? :-)

> If we do that, some users might get a short timeout using yum, but it
> seems like it should work.

That's fine.

> The important thing is then to keep the data the same on both hosts,
> which should be possible if the cronjobs updating the mirrorlist are
> updated at roughly the same time.

Or the main server just triggers the job on the other server... A simple 
xinetd-based service would do I think...

> So if everybody is okay with it I would then say let's run the second
> mirrorlist instance at Oliver's server...

That's fine for me, just let me know what you need.

-of