[mirror-admin] mirror manager explanations (Re: report_mirror: ProtocolError undefined)

[Rafal Maszkowski]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 03:34:47PM +0200, Adrian Reber wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 01:37:01PM +0200, Rafal Maszkowski wrote:
> > The presentation at https://fedorahosted.org/mirrormanager/ explains
> > also the "Internet2 clients" option. It also describes "ASN Clients?"
> > as: Serve all clients from the same ASN. Used for ISPs, companies, or
> > schools, not personal networks. What are the consequences of clicking
> > this? Just preference for the same ASN clients? And no such preference
> > for clients in other ASNs?
> If you enable ASN clients then MirrorManager tries to redirect clients
> within the ASN preferred to mirrors which have it enabled. So I would
> say that you can enable it.

In this AS they mostly our machines but it may be usefull still.

> > Another question concerns crawling. What it actually does and what
> > should I do with the site state below? I have already changed "User
> > active" to Yes. Should I do something to reenable crawling?
...
> Your mirror has been automatically disabled because it failed crawling 4
> times in a row. You have already done everything to enable crawling.
> I manually started a crawl of your mirror so that in a few hours you
> should see clients being redirected to your mirror again.

Thanks.

> I am also pretty sure you can remove the gopher URLs from your mirror
> entry.

Are there any disadvantages of having this protocol in the set?

R.
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