(Starting a new thread, instead of answering individually all previous mails in the other thread)
Just to let you know that I've read all mails (until $now) from people who have participated in the other thread. I've verified all IPs and modified when needed (change is not *yet* implemented, will probably be pushed tomorrow).
I'd like though to confirm two things :
* actually, the process I used to generate the "whitelist" is the following : doing a dns lookup to have the IP (or list of IPs, CNAME) for the hostname mentioned in the mirror URL. I'm *not* using that single IP (or list of IPs when multiple A records are found for that hostname) but a whole /24 subnet (as we were anticipating people using sometimes a different IP for outgoing connections). So, except if you're using an outgoing IP *outside* of the /24 subnet in which your mirror resides, you don't need to send a mail to the list
* second point is that I've received a question about the fact that msync machines will remain 'closed' for non-public mirrors for the future. That's a situation we'll evaluate after Seven will be released and the msync nodes (mirror/rsync) being stabilized. Normally, those nodes are served to seed public mirrors, so that users can receive their install trees/updates faster. The fact that more and more people don't use the public mirrors, but decide to use the "upstream" servers (maybe thinking they'll get it faster) forces us to limit rsync connections from "known" public mirrors. As said, that's a situation we'll evaluate later.
Cheers,