Dear CentOS mirror admin,
I found that our mirror was not shown in Hong Kong of CentOS mirror list
since 12-13 Jun 2018, may I know anything wrong on our mirror server? I
checked our mirror did not down and keeps updating.
Our mirror address is http://centos.nethub.com.hk/
Ming
Could I request that 46.43.57.39 & 46.43.57.33 are added to the
upstream mirror ACL for the main centos repo please?
Regards
Chris
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Chris Cottam Bytemark Hosting Support
http://www.bytemark.co.uk/
tel: +44 (0) 1904 890 890
So let's get this straight..
There are a few CentOS mirrors that redirect their http traffic to
https. This is fairly easy nowadays with Let's Encrypt and their
automatic cert installation scripts. While I believe that the intention
is good, I'm afraid the forced redirects are not actually helping.
I can't speak for other projects, but for CentOS mirrors, I believe that
you should respond using the same protocol the request was sent. My
concern is that there are organizations (hospitals, banks, research
centers etc) that want to make sure no confidential information leaks
out from their organization. Connections to random HTTPS sites may get
blocked at their firewall because the firewall can't see what's inside
the request.
It should also be pointed out that the scripts behind
http://mirror-status.centos.org/ will (currently) happily follow all
kinds of redirects to retrieve the timestamp file. However, the scripts
that create the actual data for mirrorlist.centos.org for each
repository are unable to access https URLs. So the moment you set up
that redirect to https, your mirror stopped being included in the output
of mirrorlist.centos.org.
I have already tried reaching out to a few mirrors doing such redirects,
but I have not received a response yet. Those mirrors will eventually be
disabled after a few more automatic nag emails, but I'm hoping that
those mirror operators would exclude their CentOS mirror traffic from
the redirects before that happens.
To be clear, you are free to offer CentOS files over https, but the
redirects should be disabled. I can see the CentOS mirror system
supporting https and mirrorlist.c.o (optionally) handing out https URLs
some day, but even then, I believe that http requests should be answered
with http, and https requests should be answered with https.
Thank you for your time!
HTTP: http://repo.ialab.dsu.edu/centos/
Sync schedule: Every 4 hrs
Bandwidth: 2.5Gbps Internet 1/ 10Gbps Internet2
Location: Madison, SD, US
Sponsor: Dakota State University
Sponsor URL: https://dsu.edu
IPv4 address to authorize: 138.247.115.248
IPv6 address to authorize: NA
Email contact: dsu-repo.ialab(a)dsu.edu
Mirroring AltArch : no
Hello,
We just received new hardware for mirror.umd.edu (about 8 years overdue to
replace our failing 12 year old hardware), which will be installed in a
different datacenter on our campus than we are currently using, which means
that our IP address will be changing.
The new IP address will be: 128.8.133.9
We would like to get our new IP added to the whitelist for rsync so that we
can make this switch.
Please do not remove the old IP (129.2.73.2) yet from the whitelist, as we
will be having both machines run for a while to ensure everything is
working before we do the switch.
Thank you,
Moshe
To whom it may concern
I am a new system administrator from linux.cs.nctu.edu.tw (
centos.cs.nctu.edu.tw)
And I want to sync the centos package from msync.centos.org
but I got the error message
@ERROR: Unknown module 'CentOS'
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1657)
[Receiver=3.1.3]
I search from google, And I find the message
http://grokbase.com/t/centos/centos-mirror/149ka8ehsy/cant-rsync-from-msync…
So, I think I must to check our machine is in white list.
My machine IP is "140.113.168.126"
If IP is not current, may I update the information.
Sync schedule: Every 6 hrs
Bandwidth: 1Gbps
Location: Asia Taiwan
Sponsor: Computer Science Computer Center, National Chiao Tung University
Sponsor URL: https://www.cs.nctu.edu.tw/cchonor/
IPv4 address to authorize: 140.113.168.126
IPv6 address to authorize: -
Email contact: weicc(a)cs.nctu.edu.tw
Mirroring AltArch : not yet
Thank you for your help.
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Sincerely,
Kevin Wei (weicc) 韋佳均 (Wei Chia-Chun)
Computer Science Computer Center, National Chiao Tung University
1001 University Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, ROC
+886-3-5712121 #54707