[mirror-admin] Issues with mirror

[Chris Schanzle]

On 07/08/2015 08:20 PM, Matthew Taylor wrote:
> On 7/07/2015 22:49, Chris Schanzle wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps related, but mirrors.kernel.org has to addresses to different machines and one of the mirror servers is out of date. I emailed ftpadmin at kernel.org Sunday but have not gotten a response yet.
>>
>> Specifically:
>>
>> $ host mirrors.kernel.org
>> mirrors.kernel.org is an alias for mirrors.us.kernel.org.
>> mirrors.us.kernel.org has address 149.20.37.36
>> mirrors.us.kernel.org has address 198.145.20.143
>> mirrors.us.kernel.org has IPv6 address 2620:3:c000:a:0:1994:3:14
>> mirrors.us.kernel.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:4:6f:0:1994:3:14
>>
>>
>> Just look at the content in:
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>> http://198.145.20.143/fedora/updates/20/i386/repodata
>> http://149.20.37.36/fedora/updates/20/i386/repodata
>>
>> [feel free to check /22/ as well -- similar issue with 149.x being dated 11-Jun-2015.]
>>
>> So basically, you have a 50/50 chance of deleting lots of current content vs re-downloading GB's of content.
>>
>> I worked around this by temporarily hardcoding the 198.x address into my sync script.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>> -- 
>
> Interesting. That explains a lot actually! Did you receive a response from ftpadmin at kernel.org?
>
> I haven't had a chance to make any changes on my side, yet the rsyncs have been completing without any problems. Looking at the two links above, they're in sync too.
>
> Regards,
> Matt.

Agreed, I found them to be in sync yesterday or thereabouts.
No, I didn't receive a response from kernel.org (unusual), but that's okay, I feel good to do my part to make the world a little better to compute in.  ;-)

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