FS#20517 - {mirror} Update for Dutch mirrors
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Opened by Mark (voidzero) - Thursday, 19 August 2010, 12:51 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Friday, 25 February 2011, 00:38 GMT
Opened by Mark (voidzero) - Thursday, 19 August 2010, 12:51 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Friday, 25 February 2011, 00:38 GMT
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Hello,
The mirrorlist currently holds two Dutch mirrors: nluug.nl and surfnet.nl. I have had a conversation with one of the nluug mirror admins. He told me that Surfnet has no machines of their own, they are the same as the nluug.nl machines. This is visible by doing a dns lookup: % host ftp.surfnet.nl ftp.surfnet.nl has address 192.87.102.42 ftp.surfnet.nl has address 192.87.102.43 ftp.surfnet.nl has IPv6 address 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:43 ftp.surfnet.nl has IPv6 address 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:42 % host ftp.nluug.nl ftp.nluug.nl has address 192.87.102.43 ftp.nluug.nl has address 192.87.102.42 ftp.nluug.nl has IPv6 address 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:42 ftp.nluug.nl has IPv6 address 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:43 The NLUUG admin has told me that it's best to remove the surfnet.nl mirrors from the mirrorlist. It serves no extra use, so please go ahead and remove them. ----- FYI #1: the NLUUG admin has changed his mirror from mirroring ibiblio to mirroring ftp.archlinux.org directly. FYI #2: I am working on setting up a new mirror at a big Dutch ISP: XS4All. I will add a new task to bugspray when this mirror has been set up. ----- |
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Mirroring from ftp.archlinux.org? It doesn't have rsync.
And if you meant rsync.archlinux.org - mirroring from it is denied for non-tier1 mirrors.
See the wiki page [1] for the list of tier1 mirrors.
There is no contact email address for nluug.nl admin in our database and ftpmirror-beheer@surfnet.nl never responded.
If you know what email address I can use for contacting some admin - let me know.
Or tell the admins to go to the wiki page [1] and follow the steps to become a proper tier2 mirror.
[1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:NewMirrors
I have emailed the admin. So far I have gotten no response, but sometimes it can take a while. I'll give it some more time and I won't forget about this bug.
I cannot find Arch mirror at nluug.nl,
so I'm completely removing surfnet from our db, and marking nluug.nl as inactive until it's fixed
http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/
Fixed the URLs in our db and marked it active again.
Personally, I'm willing to remove a mirror that is impossible/hard to contact from the official list.
It is important to have a direct contact with admins of all mirrors.
If it's broken, yes, delete it. At least until we can see how it can be restored, a broken mirror does no one good. But if we on the other hand we would try to have an official ring of archlinux supporting mirrors then we might lose working mirrors that, after all, provide some heavy local backbone.
If security would be the issue (e.g. spoofed packages) then other avenues would prove to be more effective. For example, package signing.
My conclusion is that the possibility for a middle man to contact a huge mirror archives isn't a bad idea, at least not in this case.
* Read / respond to my last comment;
* Keep the nluug mirror;
* Close this bug.