[mirror-admin] Mirror comes and goes on the mirrorlist

[Matt Domsch]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:05:45AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> said:
> > report_mirror tells the database you are up-to-date, even if you might
> > not quite be.  It's expected to be run right after your rsync
> > completes, which is why I have it do this.
> 
> Yeah, I run report_mirror after rsync runs.
> 
> > for public mirrors, dropping off the list happens only when the
> > crawler can't get to you, or if the crawler's idea of what you should
> > have differs from what you actually have.
> 
> Hmm, I don't know of any reason why the crawler wouldn't have been able
> to get to me, except for a ~5 minute window Saturday afternoon (the
> forwarding engine in the router restarted - d'oh!), but my mirror
> dropped from the mirrorlists last night and this morning.

I just ran the crawler against your host, and for some reason it
stopped after scanning quite a few directories.  It made it as far as:

http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/i386
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/i386/repodata
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/ppc
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/ppc/repodata
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/x86_64
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/x86_64/repodata
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/SRPMS/repodata
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/SRPMS/repoview/layout
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/repoview/layout
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/ppc/repoview/layout
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/x86_64/repoview/layout

but didn't complete.  I'll investigate further.

Thanks,
Matt

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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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