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

[Matt Domsch]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 05:11:34PM -0700, Mike Iglesias wrote:
> 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"?

At the moment, no.  It's on the TODO list to figure out how to send
such notifications (or have a way to opt out I suppose).

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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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