[mirror-admin] for mirrors mirroring the rhel bits

[SWITCHmirror Admins]

On 14.07.10 21:13, Dennis Gregorovic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was on vacation and am catching up on email.  Have you seen traffic
> since you're posting?

Very little (on average ~15 GByte/day), only 5-7% of the traffic we see
on average for fedora.

> In the rhel-beta.repo file we have the mirrorlist
> included.  So, anyone who is installing packages outside of RHN should
> be hitting the mirrors.  
> 
> I know that doesn't help in the case of ISOs though.  Perhaps we could
> add a MIRRORS file at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/.  Would
> that help?

It would surely help. Better would be if the ISO downloads could be
redirected to the mirror servers according to the mirrormanager info.
Otherwise offering the mirror with such little traffic becomes useless.

> Cheers
> -- Dennis
> 
> On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 09:37 +0200, SWITCHmirror Admins wrote:
>> Even our server mirror.switch.ch was listed since at least Saturday, we 
>> do not see any download traffic in the logs.
>>
>> It seems that the RedHat download page does not make use at all from the 
>> mirrormanager.
>>
>> The page
>>    http://www.redhat.com/rhel/beta/
>> links to
>>    https://inquiries.redhat.com/go/redhat/rhel-6-beta
>> links to
>>    ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/
>>
>> :-(
>>
>> Thomas

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