Hi,
I currently mirror CentOS, Fedora, and Fedora-EPEL at my university. For the Fedora side of things, I registered with their mirror manager system, checked it as a private mirror, gave it our netblock, and ASN, and people at our university are automatically routed to it.
Unless I'm missing something, for CentOS it is a little harder. There doesn't seem to be a mirror manager like system available, and everything is manually updated via this mailing list. For systems managed by me, this hasn't been a problem as I use Puppet to push out a custom CentOS-Base.repo file. But for everyone else on campus, they can only use the mirror if a), then know about it, and b) if they feel like editing their CentOS-base file. If they were automatically directed to it, as they are with Fedora, that would be ideal.
I would just make it a public mirror, but there is some university politics about opening it up to the outside world as we have to pay for our bandwidth.
So my questions are as follows:
1) Is there anything in place to register a private mirror with the CentOS mirroring infrastructure?
2) Is there a way I can be allowed to sync from us-msync.centos.org? I was able to sync from it for well over a year until it was shut off a few months back preceding the release of CentOS 7. (I'm currently having to sync from a second tier mirror.)
Let me know. Thanks,
-Chad