[mirror-admin] Outdated mirrors?

[Carlos Carvalho]

Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) wrote on 16 July 2008 16:30:
 >Once upon a time, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> said:
 >> Indeed.  Interestingly, of the ~150 public mirrors, ~110 were still
 >> listed as being up-to-date, meaning they were syncing from
 >> download*.f.r.c directly, and not using tiering.  Which is disappointing.

Indeed.

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 >Right now, it is up
 >to individual mirrors to find a higher tier mirror, get private access,
 >etc.  If you want it to be widespread, it must be easier.

The most effective way is to limit access to only the tier-[01]; then
the others will do tiering automatically. That's how it's done in
other distros.

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