[mirror-admin] MM crawler now every 4-5 hours

[Uwe Kiewel]

Matt Domsch schrieb:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:55:12PM +0100, Uwe Kiewel wrote:
>   
>>
>> What is the difference for MM between crawling and using data from 
>> report_mirror?
>>     
>
> Trust, but verify! :-)
>
> Without the crawler, if you've checked in, but then drop offline for
> whatever reasons (temporarily or permanently), we have no way to know
> this, and would still try to direct users at you.  If the crawler
> can't get at you, with it's limited bandwidth and disk access (just
> HTTP HEAD or FTP DIR calls, which do cause disk stat()s, but no data
> transfer), then users can't get at you either.
>
>   
Thanks for the explanation. So, this is the reason why my mirror 
disappeared yesterday during the DNS change on my site.

Thanks,
    Uwe
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