poeml
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7 years ago Too bad, I was about to start hacking and implement this, because it seems to straightforward. However, it's not possible, because mod_mirrorbrain runs after mod_geoip/mod_geoip2/mod_maxminddb, which it relies upon. In other words, at the time mod_mirrorbrain runs it can read the ?ip= parameter from the URL, but it's too late to look up the GeoIP country and stuff. Thus, it can't be implemented or at least I don't see how.
Under certain circumstances you can still achieve what you asked for. Mod_geoip can respect HTTP headers and read the client up from there (such as is required in a configuration where Apache runs behind a proxy). mod_mirrorbrain looks only at environment variable GEOIP_ADDR, so by that it will also respect the headers that GeoIP read. (With the successor module mod_maxminddb, GEOIP_ADDR is renamed to MMDB_ADDR, which mod_mirrorbrain doesn't know yet.)
Look for 'Proxy-Related Directives' on http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/mod_geoip2/ . Something like curl -s -H 'X-Forwarded-For: ...' http://... Should then do the job.
I use the .mirrorlist URL a lot in Kali but I also often need to know what mirrors are considered for a given IP.
Right now the only way to approximate this is to add a "?country=XX" query parameter but this obviously does not allow to take into account the AS realm and has the drawback described in #80 too.
So please allow usage of ".mirrorlist?ip=X.X.X.X" (or same with IPv6 too) to retrieve the exact mirror list that a given IP would get.
Thank you!