Hi,
I've set up a new centos mirror at the nic.funet.fi alias ftp.funet.fi (ftp.funet.fi is the server from where Linux was launched 17.9.1991 making us the oldest linux distribution server I guess) during this summer (holidays slowed finalizing it a bit...). In July there seemed to be most times I tried manually problems getting any response from the msync servers, now it seems to be doing OK.
HTTP.: http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/ FTP..: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/ Rsync: rsync://rsync.nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/
(BitTorrent is currently under testing, I'm interested in comparing it's performance and statistics with FTP if anyone has those to share. I've been experimenting with PermaSeed but that requires using the Osprey tracker so unless you're using it I'd have to generate separate torrent files or try some other approach.)
Version..............: All
(I use the rsync settings recommended in the Mirror HOWTO which I guess equals All)
Architectures........: All Direct DVD Downloads.: Yes please, but
it seems I'd need first access to my-dvd.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd to make it happen. Could that be arranged? Other mirrors could rsync from us too as long as we are not the only source. I'd hope the 2GB limit will gradually disappear... It's practically the same bits as in the set of CDs so if most sites supported DVDs I'd suppose the load would not rise much (rsync, pureftpd, http 2.2.x and Solaris 10 at least seems to be working combination).
Preference for mirrors is for nearby (low latency) sites, european late night (but do sync more often if you need to) and the academic community in case we'd need to be preferential someday... Our primary target audience is the finnish academic and research community to which we'll always give preference and best latency. Please let us know if and when you mirror us regularly and you might someday get better service or service break announcements. The GeoIP mapping sounds interesting.
We currently provide at least Fedora and Ubuntu DVD:s without major problems to everyone..
Synchronised..: 4 times/day (23 22,3,8,17 * * * currently, but could change)
Location......: Finland, EU Bandwidth cap.: 1 Gbit/s
(It's a NIC-dedicated network connected on a Juniper router that's connected to the Funet backbone which in turn is connected to NORDunet, Geant, Internet2, FICIX etc. with many gigabits) In practice the speed one gets depends on latencies, number of users and how well the 16GB memory can buffer the files).
Organization.......: CSC / Funet (Finnish University and Research Network) Contact email.: centos-mirror@nic.funet.fi Main URL......: http://www.nic.funet.fi/ Service window: 15-19 Finnish time on Mondays (for non-urgent Funet related service work, not every monday of course) but breaks and reboots on other times are also possible.
Harri Salminen nic.funet.fi coordinator
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Centos Mirror managers at NIC wrote:
Hi,
I've set up a new centos mirror at the nic.funet.fi
Thanks - it is appreciated
Direct DVD Downloads.: Yes please, but
it seems I'd need first access to my-dvd.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd to make it happen. Could that be arranged? Other mirrors could rsync from us too as long as we are not the only source. I'd hope the 2GB limit will gradually disappear... It's practically the same bits as in the set of CDs so if most sites supported DVDs I'd suppose the load would not rise much (rsync, pureftpd, http 2.2.x and Solaris 10 at least seems to be working combination).
If you could please do an initial sync against ine of the other rsync mirrors that carry dvd images - that would save our servers a lot of bandwidth - and they are more likely better connected to you than we are.
Having said that, we do need to formalise our approach to dvd downloads and a request has been made that all mirrors that offer dvd by rsync should have a separate rsync target for them (or including them) , which I am inclined to agree with and need to formalise shortly. Any comments welcome ...
Regards Lance
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I sent this actually a week ago, but it apparently was sent to the list moderator and disappeared since I didn't remember to set the From: field to the alias subscribed to this list. Anyway, the text is still current and I'm wondering if I could at some point rsync to the dvd master site or some other site with the DVDs or just live without them. There does not seem to be 4.4 or 3.8 DVDs on any of the sites, I guess that's intentional.
Harri
ps. I fixed the symlink problem as soon as I noticed it, I myself used the other symlink on our front page for testing... I don't see any problems with the rsync link either. But anyway in FTP I trust ;-)
Lance Davis wrote:
Direct DVD Downloads.: Yes please, but
it seems I'd need first access to my-dvd.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd to make it happen. Could that be arranged? Other mirrors could rsync from us too as long as we are not the only source. I'd hope the 2GB limit will gradually disappear... It's practically the same bits as in the set of CDs so if most sites supported DVDs I'd suppose the load would not rise much (rsync, pureftpd, http 2.2.x and Solaris 10 at least seems to be working combination).
If you could please do an initial sync against ine of the other rsync mirrors that carry dvd images - that would save our servers a lot of bandwidth - and they are more likely better connected to you than we are.
I've now done that from mirrors.kernel.org which took some time... The mirrorservice in UK, which would have been closer, didn't support -H option which you seem to require to save space or something? On the other hand I didn't use the -z option which we think mostly waste of time and CPU since most files are already compressed in some way and the savings in bandwidth are probably marginal compared to the server and disk load. Checksumming, which wasn't on in another mirror, however may well save bandwidth when the transfers are having problems with DVDs etc.
I forgot to mention that the source address for the mirroring would be 193.166.3.8 or 193.166.3.10 but if you can you could use the 193.166.3.0/28 subnet for access control. The public servers run in a r/o solaris 10 zone where mirrors can't write thus we mirror via different addresses in the NIC.FUNET.FI subnet.
Having said that, we do need to formalise our approach to dvd downloads and a request has been made that all mirrors that offer dvd by rsync should have a separate rsync target for them (or including them) , which I am inclined to agree with and need to formalise shortly. Any comments welcome ...
Fine by us, provided the target is defined in a way that doesn't need changing too often. 3.7 seemed to have isos-dvd, 3.8 didn't seem to have it yet at least. I suppose this would be used by other mirrors that want to offer dvd's too?
Regards
Hi,
it seems that "http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/" doesn't work (access denied), but "http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/Linux/INSTALL/Centos/" is working, symlink problem?
The rsync-url isn't correct either, I guess it should be "rsync://rsync.nic.funet.fi/ftp/pub/mirrors/centos.org/"? FTP is working though. =)
Br, Pasi
-----Original Message----- From: centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org on behalf of Centos Mirror managers at NIC Sent: Wed 8/23/2006 18:57 To: centos-mirror@centos.org Cc: Matti Aarnio; olli-pekka.lehto@csc.fi Subject: [CentOS-mirror] A new Centos mirror at nic.funet.fi
HTTP.: http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/ FTP..: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/ Rsync: rsync://rsync.nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/
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