[CentOS-mirror] Unresponsive or outdated nodes in mirror.centos.org

[Karanbir Singh]

Hi Zenon,

Zenon Panoussis wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> At http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2217&forum=6
> I expressed some dismay at the fact that several of the update
> mirrors are broken or outdated. I also proposed some remedies
> for the problem.
> 
> Since nobody has replied there, I thought I'd better bring the
> issue here.
> 
> I wrote a script which checks header.info on all parts of both
> distributions on all update mirrors using http headers only,
> thus a totally negligible amount of bandwidth, and then modifies
> sdb_ldap DNS zone records for mirror.centos.org to only reflect
> good mirrors. Of course it could run against a plain vanilla
> BIND too, but sdb_ldap has the great advantage that it eliminates
> the need to reload after every zone change, so that removing bad
> mirrors from and re-inserting repaired ones into the round-robin
> can be done really often.
> 
> To go along with the script, I also wrote an sdb_ldap .ldif for
> mirror.centos.org.
> 
> Is there any interest to implement any of this?
> 

You might want to keep in mind that mirror.centos.org are machines that 
are run by us, the centos project, on donated dedicated servers. The 
mirrors listed on http://www.centos.org/mirrors  are _NOT_ a part of 
mirror.centos.org

However this issue of external mirror state, is an issue that came up a 
few weeks back and Lance has written a state checking script. We plan on 
implementing this to generate mirrorlist data that can then in turn be 
used by yum to make sure users get only 'updated' mirrors.

- K
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Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq