[mirror-admin] Fedora mirrors: new Tier 0 mirrors / Internet2 joy

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 05:23:13PM -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch at dell.com) wrote on 10 April 2008 11:51:
>  >So, the change.  We have 2 "Tier 0" servers now:
>  >fedora-archives.ibiblio.org and archives.linux.duke.edu.  These have
>  >static routes set up to get the content from the download1 server over
>  >Internet2.  Our Tier 1 mirrors that have previously been using
>  >download*.f.r.c should now use one of these two.
> 
> They should already have the acls for the current tier 1 mirrors then...
> They don't, so I request access to fedora.c3sl.ufpr.br (200.17.202.1).
> 
> It's not clear to me why the tier 1 that are in internet2 cannot
> access download1 directly.

The problem is routing.  For each host that will connect to download1,
Red Hat needs to ensure there are routes to it over Internet2, and not
over the commercial links.  Routing is messed up, and will be fixed correctly
when a new netblock is assigned to them by the Internet2 provider.
That has taken quite some time to get, and isn't here yet.  Without
this, per-target static routes need to be set up, which is a PITA and
isn't guaranteed to always work either.  Once the netblock is in
place, we can revert back to normal operations.  To be safe, I don't
expect that to be in place before we need to launch F9.


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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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