-DSA is currently play around with a patched version of bind9 (based on a
+DSA is currently playing around with a patched version of bind9 (based on a
patch we received from kernel.org people) to implement GeoDNS for
-security.debian.org. You might have noticed, that we currently have a
+security.debian.org. You might have noticed that we currently have a
round robin list of up to seven hosts in the security.debian.org
rotation. Depending on time and luck your apt currently might pick a
host which is located half around the globe for you, resulting in
## Idea
-The current idea is only present a list of security mirrors to you which
-is located on the continent you live on. That won't work for all
-continents at the moment, we are aware of that. For that reason we are
-in paralell currently moving machines around the globe, to get that
-fixed in foreseeable future.
+The current idea is to only present a list of security mirrors to
+you which are located on the continent you live on. We are aware that
+this won't work for all continents at the moment. For this reason we
+are also currently moving machines around the globe.
## How to test
The patch we used for bind9 uses
[libgeoip](http://packages.debian.org/geoip) and [MaxMind's GeoLite
Country database](http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry).
+[This](http://vancouver.yorkcabal.org.uk/~steve/.bind/geoip.patch)
+patch was necessary to get bind to play nicely.
As we don't want to break security.debian.org at this stage of our
-testing, we decided to add a new subdomain security.geo.debian.org which
-with we are currently playing.
+testing, we decided to add a new subdomain security.geo.debian.org with
+which we are currently playing.
Having an ACL for EU defining all the countries belonging to the
European Subcontinent, a config sniplet for security.debian.org's zone