Current bird via bookworm-backports?

[Chriztoffer Hansen]

Jakub,

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 14:08, Jakub Ružička <jakub.ruzicka at nic.cz> wrote:
>
> First, thank you all for these emergent mirrors :)
>
> On 4/23/24 20:26, netravnen+birdlist at gmail.com wrote:
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> On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 at 14:50, Jakub Ružička <jakub.ruzicka at nic.cz> wrote:
>
> A next step could be to add a list at the homepage
> (https://pkg.labs.nic.cz/doc/) of public mirrors on a per-region
> basis. Maybe?
>
> I can do that as we have 3 mirrors already in France, Canada, and Denmark, yay \o/
>
> I'm thinking about adding a mirror selection that would look like
>
> * OFFICIAL: pkg.labs.nic.cz/bird2/ (🇨🇿 Czech Republic)
> * MIRROR: debian.octopuce.fr/bird2/ (🇫🇷 France)
> * MIRROR: mirrors.dotsrc.org/bird2/ (🇩🇰 Denmark)
> * MIRROR: mirror.quantum5.ca/bird2/ (🇨🇦 Canada)
>
> to https://pkg.labs.nic.cz/doc/?project=bird
>
> and selecting a mirror would reflect in the instructions.
>
> Does that sound good?

Wonderful. :-)

> If you know about a nice implementation of such selection I could use as a reference, feel free to share.

I know some Linux distributions use GeoDNS service(s) to redirect a
CNAME record dynamically to an approximate close mirror based on the
users country-of-origin (based on IP-to-Country IP mappings). Such an
CNAME-to-country "implementation" [if chosen] is probably best left to
an external/3rd-party DNS provider (with a decent reputation). To
avoid maintaining more internal infrastructure than necessary.

Cheers,

Chriztoffer - Volunteer
Foreningen for DotSrc - https://dotsrc.org/