Bug#595022: www.debian.org: confusing sponsors link

[Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>]

severity 595022 minor
thanks

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 03:58:49PM +0200, Roland Stigge wrote:
> Package: www.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> 
> on the front page of http://www.debian.org/, I see a sponsor's button like
> "S*lvers*rver" or "X*4*LL". But when clicking on it, I get redirected to the
> "Technische Universität Dr*sden".

Indeed.
This is a consequence of DNS round robins combined with low TTL (300
seconds).

As a consequence, for every geographic zone with different sponsors, the
DNS TTL may expire between viewing a page and viewing the sponsor page
http://www.debian.org/sponsor.html

See:
http://git.debian.org/?p=mirror/dsa-geodomains.git;a=blob;f=zones/www.debian.org.zone;hb=HEAD

dig +short www.debian.org
194.109.137.218
213.129.232.18
141.76.2.5

As we want to keep the TTL low (allows better reactivity in case of
webmirror failure), the way to fix this behaviour may be :

* put only one webmirror per country/zone, to avoid DNS round robin

* change the sponsor link from http://www.debian.org/sponsor.html to the
  sponsor url directly, without any intermediate step

-- 
Simon Paillard