[mirror-admin] Fedora 11 Beta coming your way

[J.H.]

Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> J.H. (warthog19 at eaglescrag.net) wrote on 31 March 2009 10:42:
>  >It might be worth checking in at 
>  >https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring/Tiering it's 
>  >possible that the two mirrors your pointing to just aren't handling the 
>  >load, or don't have good solid connectivity to your location.  Check 
>  >around see if any of the other tier [01] mirrors there are better for you.
> 
> I've tried ibiblio and several others when we started the mirror. Took
> more than a week to get everything... Nearly all of them didn't follow
> the rules of keeping the same directory structure and the whole
> content, so I have no confidence in them. We're also tier 1, so we
> have to be cautious with upstream. Others were no faster than the
> master. Before you jump at me I should say that ibiblio and kernel.org
> had the right content, but were very slow from here as well. BTW,
> kernel.org is fast for your primary content; we mirror the whole scm
> and kernel tree (more than a million files) and it comes at several
> MB/s. However for other distros the speed is much smaller...

Interesting on the issues of speed, can you give me some data points 
(ip's for instance, traceroutes, etc) so I can see what can be done? 
I'll admit if your syncing from mirrors.kernel.org your hitting a very 
different machine than <anything else>.kernel.org, which would account 
for the difference in speeds sometimes.

If your still seeing slowness from mirrors.kernel.org let me know.  We 
did have an outage a couple of weeks back and were down to only one 
machine in the US, but that got resolved and I'm not seeing unusual load 
on the machines and I seem to be able to pull at full speed from them. 
Like I said if your not seeing similar speeds from my machines let me 
know and I can look into it.

> 
>  >If your a public mirror, and your getting blocked, check with Duke and 
>  >check your ACL in mirrormanager.
> 
> The ACL is for others to access our mirror, no? So Duke should adjust
> it to give us access, which they don't. Once I asked for it in the
> contact email listed in mirrormanager but got no answer.

The ACL that you can see in mirrormanager is for sites to access from 
you, so you can't actually see Duke's acl listing.  If they are 
unresponsive to e-mails I would try again, it might have gotten lost in 
a shuffle somewhere.

> 
>  >It's also possible your using a public rsync module vs. a mirror
>  >module (we have a separate module at kernel.org for mirrors to use
>  >that gives them access to everything)
> 
> Yes, I use it for the kernel (we're official country mirror). I once
> asked for access to fedora as well but HPA didn't like the idea. I
> didn't insist because it wasn't faster than the master. If Duke has
> one it's hidden.

This was likely a long time ago that HPA didn't like the idea, if you 
want kick an e-mail off to ftpadmin at kernel.org and I can get you setup 
with access to our fedora mirring rsync module (it's username/password 
locked so I don't have to worry about ip addresses, etc) and I can get 
you hooked up there.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley
Chief Kernel.org Administrator

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