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FS#71785 - evowise.com mirror returns HTML ads

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Moviuro (Moviuro) - Monday, 09 August 2021, 20:21 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Friday, 13 August 2021, 09:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Mirrors
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

mirrors.evowise.com, the top "Worldwide" mirror has been taken over and is used for ads. It is so bad that the domain landed on advertising blocklists, such as https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/lists/ads-and-tracking-extended.txt

Additional info:
* pacman-mirrorlist 20210808-1
* See http://mirrors.evowise.com, which redirects to https://www.zerobounce.net

Steps to reproduce:
* use `Server = http://mirrors.evowise.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch` in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew
* pacman -Syyu
This task depends upon

Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Friday, 13 August 2021, 09:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#71688 

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