We can do this here at Oi Internet (Brazil) too

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Em Qua, 2007-03-07 às 18:28 +0100, Daniele Carbonetti escreveu:

Hi, I can do that! So let me know your plans about this.

Regards.

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On Wed, March 7, 2007 5:43 pm, Lance Davis wrote:

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In preparation for the public release of CentOS 5 beta, we would like to expand the number of mirror servers that have the beta as we expect it to be a popular download.

So if any mirrors - especially ones with large bandwidth - can agree to the following please let us know :-

1. set up an apache virtual host as beta.centos.or

2. set up rsync for beta.cenros.org with targets we specify

This will make it easy for us to use GeoIP based dns system to give out mirrors.

3. agree to sync regularily and only carry the latest beta download tree

Because we dont want broken stuff too widely distributed

4. agree to remove the beta stuff when the beta test is over

Thanks

Lance

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Yep, just let me know where to sign up and US/Virginia/Virginia Tech CS Department is at your disposal.

Contact me at mirror@cs.vt.edu

~Will

Quoting Marcos Dias mtdias@oi.com.br:

We can do this here at Oi Internet (Brazil) too

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Em Qua, 2007-03-07 às 18:28 +0100, Daniele Carbonetti escreveu:

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Hi, I can do that! So let me know your plans about this.

Regards.

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On Wed, March 7, 2007 5:43 pm, Lance Davis wrote:

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In preparation for the public release of CentOS 5 beta, we would like to expand the number of mirror servers that have the beta as we expect it to be a popular download.

So if any mirrors - especially ones with large bandwidth - can agree to the following please let us know :-

1. set up an apache virtual host as beta.centos.or

2. set up rsync for beta.cenros.org with targets we specify

This will make it easy for us to use GeoIP based dns system to give out mirrors.

3. agree to sync regularily and only carry the latest beta download tree

Because we dont want broken stuff too widely distributed

4. agree to remove the beta stuff when the beta test is over

Thanks

Lance

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On Wed, March 7, 2007 8:30 pm, Lance Davis wrote:

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, mirror-maintainer@mirror.averse.net wrote:

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On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Lance Davis wrote:

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In preparation for the public release of CentOS 5 beta, we would like to expand the number of mirror servers that have the beta as we expect it to be a popular download.

So if any mirrors - especially ones with large bandwidth - can agree to the following please let us know :-

1. set up an apache virtual host as beta.centos.or

2. set up rsync for beta.cenros.org with targets we specify

How much disk space is required for the beta?

At present it looks like it will be 26 GB plus 8 GB for dvd isos - although we are working on how to present those dvd isos - and it may just be via bitorrent and maybe rsync, unless we have a second virtual host for the dvd isos and only those mirrors that are capable of presenting them being part of that rrdns grouping.

Regards Lance

I already have http, ftp, and rsync access setup on my end. I can host the 26GB plus the 8GB for DVD isos.

Just let me know what I need to set my rsync target up as.

Beta Mirror IP = 72.13.100.148 Rsync connections will be coming from 72.13.100.146

Cheers!

On Wed, March 7, 2007 10:10 pm, Lance Davis wrote:

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Matthew Martz wrote:

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I already have http, ftp, and rsync access setup on my end. I can host the 26GB plus the 8GB for DVD isos.

Just let me know what I need to set my rsync target up as.

Beta Mirror IP = 72.13.100.148 Rsync connections will be coming from 72.13.100.146

ok - I have set up your ip - so lets test this :)

the tree is embargoed !!

rsync is us-beta-sync.centos.org::centos-beta

I suggest that you set up rsync access for users with the same target

[centos-beta] path = /home/centos-beta - your path comment = The official CentOSBeta Mirror list = yes exclude = 4.92 5 - while embargoed

We will then publish rsync access as rsync beta.centos.org::centos-beta

We will probably not publish access via ftp as we dont provide it - although we could set up ftp.beta.centos.org if mirrors want to offer that ...

BTW the tree does include the current beta stuff for 4.1,4.2,4.3 ie sparc etc

Cheers

Lance

I am running the initial rsync now.

http://72.13.100.148/ ftp://72.13.100.148/ rsync://72.13.100.148/centos-beta

I'll post back once the rsync is complete. Shouldn't be long at 60mbit/s.

Cheers!

On Thursday 08 March 2007, Lance Davis wrote:

So - what we need :-

mirror : ip address for rsync access : url for testing :

We will of course join in :-) mirror: mirror.nsc.liu.se ip: 130.236.100.78

Since I'm not an apache guy I'd appreciate if someone could give me an chunk of config for this virtual server stuff.

/Peter

Thanks

Lance

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Marcin Godlewski wrote:

Lance Davis napisał(a):

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mirror : ip address for rsync access : url for testing :

i would like to help you with beta, so add also my site

mirror: Lublin University of Technology ip address for rsync access: 212.182.65.3 url for testing: http://centos-beta.politechnika.lublin.pl

ok - you are good to go - please make sure you sync at least once per hour.

Regards Lance

If anything is needed let me know.

Cheers Marcin Godlewski

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On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Josef Gryga wrote:

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So - what we need :- mirror :

mirror.karneval.cz

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ip address for rsync access :

81.27.192.35

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url for testing :

http://centos-beta.mirror.karneval.cz

Yoi are good to go - pleae make sure you sync at least once per hour duting our release phase.

Thanks

Lance

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On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, William Dunn wrote:

Mirror: Virginia Tech CS department http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/ IP: 128.173.40.38 URL for testing: http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/centos-beta/ (also accessable http://via 128.173.40.38/centos/ )

From the root of the site, /centos/ symlinks to the proper directory for the beta, and is respected by apache.

Please can you make sure that beta.centos.org shows the centos dir , as at http://betamirror.nsc.liu.se/ rather than your which seems to show the 4.x dirs as at http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/centos-beta/ ???

Thanks Lance

Still syncing, but should be done soon.

~Will VTCS

Lance Davis wrote:

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Thanks for all the offers of mirrors for the beta - we are going to restrict access to our servers by ip - so if you could all email what ip your server will be accessing from that would help - although we do have records of some.

The actual sync needs to be done from rsync beta-sync.centos.org::centos-beta

It is also accesible as us-beta-sync for us mirrors and eu-beta-sync for eu ones. We dont have geoip based dns set up for it yet.

If you could make sure that the tree you present looks the same as ours eg has a /centos/ dir , because all beta.centos.org need to look the same ...

Also the beta tree will be embargoed until a date/time to be emailled to this list. We will make the embargoed subdirectories non-publically readable until release time , but you will need to exclude them from rsync target, we will publish suitable exclude= for the rsync target, (and maybe also for ftp).

At release time we will make the released dir publicaly readable so that he next sync will make it available.

We will check all mirrors contain suitable data before adding them to our dns , so please make sure that the tree is accessible either by ip or via a different virtual host.

So - what we need :-

mirror : ip address for rsync access : url for testing :

Thanks

Lance

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On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Kevin M Stange wrote:

Lance Davis wrote:

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So - what we need :-

mirror : ip address for rsync access : url for testing :

We're ready to begin syncing now.

ok - I have set you up

btw - we would apreciate if beta mirrors synced at least once per hour - especially during the release phase.

The overhead of doing this should be minimal as long as proper lockfiles are used.

Thanks

Regards Lance

mirror: mirror.steadfast.net / 208.100.4.53 (virtualhost for beta.centos.org is set up). ip address for rsync access: 208.100.4.53 url for testing: http://centos-beta.mirror.steadfast.net

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On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, David Richardson wrote:

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Lance Davis wrote:

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So - what we need :- mirror :

mirror.chpc.utah.edu (155.101.3.219)

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ip address for rsync access :

mirror.chpc.utah.edu (155.101.3.219)

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url for testing :

centos-beta.mirror.chpc.utah.edu

Just to make sure I've covered everything:

• I have a name virtual host, which responds to the names beta.centos.org

and centos-beta.mirror.chpc.utah.edu

• I serve the rsync target centos-beta, which points to the root of this

virtualhost

• I have blocked rsync access to the 4.92 and 5 directories in /centos (as

in the snippet you sent)

• The permissions I rsync from the master should block http and ftp access

to the embargoed directories

Did I miss anything?

That seems good - I have set you up for access.

Please sync at least once an hour while we are in launch phase.

Thanks

Lance

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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Richard Ford wrote:

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• I have a name virtual host, which responds to the names beta.centos.org and centos-beta.mirror.chpc.utah.edu

Just out of interest - is this something that is needed for regular centos mirrors? Because I have found that the mirrlist geoip stuff - never directs yum to our server - but continues to point us to japan or korea..... :-\

This is the first site for which I've set up a separate vhost. But since the goal was to be able to have beta.centos.org point to different servers and have an identical look, I did it for this special case.

Cheers Dave, good checklist.

RF.

Thanks, Richard, and cheers to you as well.

Dave

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Lance Davis wrote:

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, David Richardson wrote:

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Did I miss anything?

On checking it looks like your mirror dpoesnt have the 4.1,4.2,4.3 directories - at least they arent showing up ???

I had excluded them from my earlier syncs (in favor of 4.92/5). I'll change my script to grab them now, too.

Dave

It's not like we have anything going on ...

We are only trying to release CentOS-5, build updates for CentOS-4 and do the Beta for CentOS-4.5 ... while a major meeting (Linux World Expo - Belgium) is going on.

I'm sure all our Paid employees can handle that ... oh, wait, nobody pays for this stuff ... it's all given away free and people volunteer their time to do all this ... hmmm, maybe that has something to do with it.

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 14:17 +0800, Richard Ford wrote:

Well thanks CentOS mirror maintainers for managing to ignore/miss/ dismiss three (3) requests for my Hong Kong IP's to be cleared. Not.

Anyway I have now managed to pull in 20GB of the beta and are continuing at my speedy 8-10K/sec....

I hope that my volunteering and support for Linux which is pushing 18 years now will not be spurned any further by some miopic list admins. Even Mr Magoo could have seen my requests for a HK IP ACL addition.

Cheers, Richard.

On 14 Mar 2007, at 1:15 AM, David Richardson wrote:

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On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Lance Davis wrote:

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On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, David Richardson wrote:

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Did I miss anything?

On checking it looks like your mirror dpoesnt have the 4.1,4.2,4.3 directories - at least they arent showing up ???

I had excluded them from my earlier syncs (in favor of 4.92/5). I'll change my script to grab them now, too.

Dave

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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Adrian Reber wrote:

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 02:52:37AM +0000, Lance Davis wrote:

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mirror : ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de ip address for rsync access : 129.143.116.10 url for testing : centos-beta.lisas.de

I have set you up for access

Regards Lance

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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Martin Dubec wrote:

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So - what we need :-

mirror : ftp.sh.cvut.cz ip address for rsync access : 147.32.127.222 url for testing : centos-beta.sh.cvut.cz

I have set you up for access.

Regads Lance

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On tor, 08 mar 2007, archive-admin@mirrorservice.org wrote:

Id agree that perhaps a more general perhaps a sub tree of the main mirror?

I agree. It should be easy enough to exclude a 5-beta* directory than starting an separate mirror tree. Every other Linux distribution I know does it this way - so why can't CentOS? I can't see that disk space on all the mirrors should be of any concern - if mirrors have limited space, they will hit that limit when v5 is released anyway.

Regards,

Le Thursday 08 March 2007, Lance Davis a écrit :

This time around we think that our internal servers would struggle to cope so we are wanting a few external mirrors to help.

But we do want to keep it separate from our main tree.

This is not really the problem. Just setup another rsync share, and define where it be on ftp/rsync/http path. Seting up a CNAME is enough after. See BSD (ftp://ftp5.fr.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ point to a server in the university I am working, 5 iirc).

Although we will discuss internally ...

The main issue is you are asking specific work to be done altering server setup with complexes configuration.

Most of mirror admin does the job to help, but most of them don't really care to what happen. Moreover guys having big mirror often host several projects. Now imagine each of them ask something else... It is already the case for gentoo, those guy want specific hour for sync with different time for two tree, *BSD want to be in /pub, etc...

The risk for all projects is to bother admin more that they can handle, and finally just be ignored by most of them.

distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr is already a key server for mandriva, top level for kororaa, and is used a reference for some other mirrors. The best way to ensure the quality is simply to discuss and having good contact with a set of trusted people (for instance I am not only a sys admin, but also a contributor who work on a rpm based distribution).

Otherwise, http://centos-beta.nanardon.zarb.org/ works here, same apache config is done for beta.centos.org, the rsync share is open, so everything should be ok, just need to be tested.

I cannot sync the beta tree currently:

[distrib@distrib-coffee etc]$ rsync rsync://us-beta-sync.centos.org/centos-beta/ @ERROR: Unknown module 'centos-beta' rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1383) [receiver=2.6.9] [distrib@distrib-coffee etc]$

But the config is done in my bot and the sync will retry.

Regards.

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Richard Ford wrote:

So you want us to provide RSYNC services too?

That is - if I only run HTTP now - I also have to offer and RSYNC server as well?

This can be done, not sure of the logic - but will use more of my CPU cycles.

Do we have to provide a free IP on a virtual host or just a virtual host? No matter if I use one, two, three or more aliased IP's on physical server - I always do stuff like this as a vhost for better accounting.

Perhaps the centos beta stuff can be more clearly, simply and precisely explained as opposed to a dribble of half expressed emails and equally self serving responses - busy people really don't have time to work out what others are trying to say or how one persons experiences carry over to themselves. Maybe some filtering and formatting between brain and fingers/keyboard? Think of it as a requirements specification, even some rudimentary UML or use cases with event/actions would help, seriously!

Failing that, I would settle for a coherent paragraph of the Queens English and a clear technical requirement spec.

I am sorry that you are disappointed with the request others have managed to make sense of it and comply.

If you do not want to provide rsync access fine, but your mirror will not be able to be a part of beta.centos.org.

The whole point is that all the machines that are mapped on to that behave similarily, otherwise it would cause no end of problems for end users.

Lance

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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Richard Ford wrote:

G'Day Lance,

I am not questioning your design goals or requirements.

But it took me having to read many response to get a grip as to what is what. The fact that others may be able to do this with less reading or more time hacking, is not an idigtment of my competency. The art of good communication is brevity, accuracy and timeliness.

I am not trying to score points here, but next time a major effort is needed, maybe the "thought writing" and desires are popped into a text editor first and re-read before going out in email - as opposed to writing as it is thought of direct to email.

Anyway, I still don't know if I need a seperate IP - but I will assign one in any case.

URL: centos-beta.candishosting.com.cn IP: 211.157.103.176

I have set you up for access

Regards Lance

Cheers, RF.

On 9 Mar 2007, at 4:44 AM, Lance Davis wrote:

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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Richard Ford wrote:

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So you want us to provide RSYNC services too?

That is - if I only run HTTP now - I also have to offer and RSYNC server as well?

This can be done, not sure of the logic - but will use more of my CPU cycles.

Do we have to provide a free IP on a virtual host or just a virtual host? No matter if I use one, two, three or more aliased IP's on physical server - I always do stuff like this as a vhost for better accounting.

Perhaps the centos beta stuff can be more clearly, simply and precisely explained as opposed to a dribble of half expressed emails and equally self serving responses - busy people really don't have time to work out what others are trying to say or how one persons experiences carry over to themselves. Maybe some filtering and formatting between brain and fingers/keyboard? Think of it as a requirements specification, even some rudimentary UML or use cases with event/actions would help, seriously!

Failing that, I would settle for a coherent paragraph of the Queens English and a clear technical requirement spec.

I am sorry that you are disappointed with the request others have managed to make sense of it and comply.

If you do not want to provide rsync access fine, but your mirror will not be able to be a part of beta.centos.org.

The whole point is that all the machines that are mapped on to that behave similarily, otherwise it would cause no end of problems for end users.

Lance

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Also - China connections suck.

Can you add 203.86.232.122 which is one of my servers in HK.

I will do initial sync to there and then pull into Beijing and all subsequent ones will come direct from BJ.

Cheers, RF.

On 9 Mar 2007, at 8:55 PM, Lance Davis wrote:

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Richard Ford wrote:

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G'Day Lance,

I am not questioning your design goals or requirements.

But it took me having to read many response to get a grip as to what is what. The fact that others may be able to do this with less reading or more time hacking, is not an idigtment of my competency. The art of good communication is brevity, accuracy and timeliness.

I am not trying to score points here, but next time a major effort is needed, maybe the "thought writing" and desires are popped into a text editor first and re-read before going out in email - as opposed to writing as it is thought of direct to email.

Anyway, I still don't know if I need a seperate IP - but I will assign one in any case.

URL: centos-beta.candishosting.com.cn IP: 211.157.103.176

I have set you up for access

Regards Lance

...

Cheers, RF.

On 9 Mar 2007, at 4:44 AM, Lance Davis wrote:

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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Richard Ford wrote:

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So you want us to provide RSYNC services too?

That is - if I only run HTTP now - I also have to offer and RSYNC server as well?

This can be done, not sure of the logic - but will use more of my CPU cycles.

Do we have to provide a free IP on a virtual host or just a virtual host? No matter if I use one, two, three or more aliased IP's on physical server - I always do stuff like this as a vhost for better accounting.

Perhaps the centos beta stuff can be more clearly, simply and precisely explained as opposed to a dribble of half expressed emails and equally self serving responses - busy people really don't have time to work out what others are trying to say or how one persons experiences carry over to themselves. Maybe some filtering and formatting between brain and fingers/keyboard? Think of it as a requirements specification, even some rudimentary UML or use cases with event/actions would help, seriously!

Failing that, I would settle for a coherent paragraph of the Queens English and a clear technical requirement spec.

I am sorry that you are disappointed with the request others have managed to make sense of it and comply.

If you do not want to provide rsync access fine, but your mirror will not be able to be a part of beta.centos.org.

The whole point is that all the machines that are mapped on to that behave similarily, otherwise it would cause no end of problems for end users.

Lance

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Olivier Thauvin wrote:

Le Wednesday 07 March 2007, Lance Davis a écrit :

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In preparation for the public release of CentOS 5 beta, we would like to expand the number of mirror servers that have the beta as we expect it to be a popular download.

So if any mirrors - especially ones with large bandwidth - can agree to the following please let us know :-

(http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/)

I do not have many bandwith for http, but I can provide a spare rsync server easilly, and I can ensure a sync very often (4 time per hour for example).

...

1. set up an apache virtual host as beta.centos.or

This is possible, but I'll have probably to restart my apache, which is not acceptable because the count long iso download always pending on the server.

Have you tried "apachectl graceful"?

graceful Gracefully restarts the Apache daemon by sending it a SIGUSR1. If the daemon is not running, it is started.This differs from a normal restart in that currently open connections are not aborted. A side effect is that old log files will not be closed immediately. This means that if used in a log rotation script, a substantial delay may be necessary to ensure that the old log files are closed before processing them. This command automatically checks the configuration files via configtest before initiating the restart to make sure Apache doesn't die.

AFAIK, basically keeps child processes running under the old rules, but restarts a new parent with the new rules.

~Will

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2. set up rsync for beta.cenros.org with targets we specify

Will this target change for next beta ? how many rsync per day ? Why do you not push beta on classic tree ? I am usually ready to help, but I can't change my config for all distribution like this, otherwise, I can work only the mirrors (I rsync mandriva, centos, scientific, devil...), for some tree, I am often the first and sometimes the only one to report errors.

So if you can ensure me I'll have to setup this only one time for all, why not.

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This will make it easy for us to use GeoIP based dns system to give out mirrors.

My server is already registered for a projet I am working on (http://mmm.zarb.org/ if interested)

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3. agree to sync regularily and only carry the latest beta download tree

Because we dont want broken stuff too widely distributed

I rsync mandriva 4 time per hour (400GB), so this is not a problem

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4. agree to remove the beta stuff when the beta test is over

And having to setup it again for next beta ? Why not keeping this tree for the devel tree, moving often, as mandriva have devel/cooker ?

Regards.

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Le jeudi 8 mars 2007, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :

Le Wednesday 07 March 2007, Lance Davis a écrit :

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In preparation for the public release of CentOS 5 beta, we would like to expand the number of mirror servers that have the beta as we expect it to be a popular download.

So if any mirrors - especially ones with large bandwidth - can agree to the following please let us know :-

(http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/)

I do not have many bandwith for http, but I can provide a spare rsync server easilly, and I can ensure a sync very often (4 time per hour for example).

...

1. set up an apache virtual host as beta.centos.or

This is possible, but I'll have probably to restart my apache, which is not acceptable because the count long iso download always pending on the server.

Hum, after looking my setup, and for most of server, unless you want to use / on the http server, there is no need of an apache virtual host.

Look *BSD which are always in /pub/*BSD. You just have to claim a path for ftp/http/rsync and so all mirror can easilly provide a symlink, or a mountpoint as ftp://.../pub/centos or http://.../CentOS-Beta. In apache this can be done with a simple Alias directive.

Unless the http server already use virtual host (rarelly the case for mirrors servers), by default an unknown server name will point to the default website.

Then just setup in you dns an CNAME or A ptr beta.centos.org -> mirrors.

Wouldn't be that faster to setup for most of people ?

BTW: I am not sure a round robin DNS is te best, people will randomly point to closed or far mirrors, with the bad results in some case (France -> France = up to 5MB, France -> USA never more than 400kB). To use Geoip and so being able choose the mirror, you cannot use a unique host name, otherwise the round robin dns will act, and to have http config working with named virtual host working, the http client should use the name in apache config. I can missed something, the idea seems to not be able to work.

Oterwise, I agree to see what I can do: distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr, server IP: 134.157.176.20

Nothing is setup yet as I am waiting reply reply on topic above.

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, David Richardson wrote:

I need to take mirror.chpc.utah.edu (155.101.3.219) down for a couple hours (moving the drives to a much nicer box). We should probably remove it from the beta.centos.org cluster.

I redirected my vhost to beta-syncj.centos.org and performed my work. I'm fully fuctional and synced again.

Dave