[mirror-admin] reducing "allowed stale" time from 7 days

[Mike Iglesias]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> At the same time, the MM crawler was adapted last week to run more
> frequently (every couple hours now), and to verify the mirror's
> repomd.xml file.  If it doesn't match what is current, the mirror is
> marked not up-to-date.  Now, a maliciously stale mirror could report
> to the MM crawler the current repomd.xml, while serving a stale
> repomd.xml to downstream clients.  The above 7-day (or reduced) window
> limits how stale they can be.

Will the person in charge of the mirror be notified if their mirror is
marked "stale"?

> 
> So, the question for mirrors is - are you able to sync updates within
> 24-48 hours of their being published?

If the upstream mirror is updated quickly enough, yes, I think so.  I run
rsync 4 times a day,  but that can be changed if necessary.


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