On 01.03.2013 15:20, Anssi Johansson wrote:
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Ah, that's how it works, I never could figure that one out :)
It appears that if there's also an HTTP URL specified for the mirror, only the HTTP URL is checked and not the FTP URL. Thus it may be possible that some FTP URLs have become stale over time and those problems are not detected by the mirror checking scripts.
Yes and no. The mirror-status scripts do not check for valid ftp URLs if there is an http URL instead. The scripts which populate mirrorlist.centos.org actually *do* check for validity of the content of the ftp server. But yes, actually nobody checks the logs of those except if someone requires help.
I had a look at the FTP URLs, and noticed problems with the following mirrors:
Thanks, I am going to take a look at that (and the rsync stuff) over the weekend. Great detective work, I am grateful for that.
Regards,
Ralph