[mirror-admin] New Mirror not being spidered and not showing up in mirror list

[Dan Hawke]

> From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com>
> Subject: Re: New Mirror not being spidered and not showing up in mirror list
> 
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:51:07PM +1300, Dan Hawke wrote:
>> 
>> Why aren't we getting crawled?
> 
> Because your Site is marked private.  Nearly all private mirrors are
> unreachable from the public internet, so the crawler doesn't try.  MM
> assumes that you run report_mirror regularly as you do, and trusts
> that.  Private mirrors also don't appear on the publiclist pages.
> 
> Do you intend to be a public mirror?  If so, clear the "private"
> checkbox on your Site's page.

Thanks - that was it - it looks like there's a display bug in Opera, the
check-box appears to be empty, but does in fact have a check in it.  Using
another browser allowed me to spot this, and I have unchecked it :)
Hopefully once all the infrastructure is back, I'll see a crawl then!

Cheers :)

Dan

> 
>> It's picking up categories, and I've linked them to URLs:
>> Hosts carry categories of software. Example Fedora categories include Fedora
>> Core and Fedora Extras.
> 
> yep, these all look good.
> 
> Also, be aware that due to the Fedora Infrastructure physical move
> from one data center to another over the last few days, the crawlers
> are offline until a few more things are fixed.  Whee!
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> -- 
> Matt Domsch
> Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
> linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
> 
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