[CentOS-mirror] Status of dvd iso for CentOS mirrors.

[archive-admin at mirrorservice.org]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Lance Davis wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, archive-admin at mirrorservice.org wrote:
>
> >
> > on
> > http://isoredirect.centos.org/mirrorscripts/chooseisolist.pl?release=5.0&arch=i386
> > where not shown as having the dvdimages but we do(mirrorservice.org (GB) )
> > available via ftp...
> >
> > http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.0/isos-dvd/
>
> When our script checks the dvd it gets a 403 ...
>
> Check  http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.0/isos/i386/CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-DVD.iso - bad dvd - 403 Forbidden
>
Hmm ok not what i get from home ,work or the machine in london,

What ip do the checks come from, and do you have a special user agent set?

are you checking with a head request?

Thanks

Phill.




> Which is what I saw before, but when I just tested it I got taken to ftp
> ...
>
> Would you prefer I just checked ftp and linked to the isos dir there ??
>
> Regards
> Lance
>
> >
> > etc..
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Phill.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Lance Davis wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Kevin M Stange wrote:
> >>
> >>> Lance Davis wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> With the release of 5 we have seen a tremendous increase in the use of
> >>>> the dvd.iso , so that from bitorrent it is now downloaded 5 times more
> >>>> than the cd isos.
> >>>
> >>> For a while there, we were the only mirror showing DVDs on the CentOS
> >>> site.  We had to throttle our bandwidth because we were pushing as much
> >>> as 350 Mbps, mostly in DVD ISOs.  Things have calmed down a bit from
> >>> that high now.
> >>
> >> Phew - thanks for that - I think there are now 4 US mirrors shown carrying
> >> dvd isos - and we are pushing to get more ...
> >>>
> >>>> The main issue with having the dvd isos available from mirrors is that
> >>>> Apache < 2.2 running on 32 bit architecture wont display files larger
> >>>> than 2.0 GB , however CentOS 5 has Apache 2.2 with large file support so
> >>>> that problem will now start to go away - alternative is also to use
> >>>> lighttpd.
> >>>
> >>> Rebuilding the apr, apr-util, and httpd SRPMs from CentOS 5 or Fedora
> >>> Devel will work for CentOS 4.  Only catch, httpd includes an init script
> >>> which requires a new version of initscripts.  To work around it, you can
> >>> install the src RPM, then grab your old /etc/init.d/httpd and replace
> >>> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE/httpd.init.  Then you can set the dependency to
> >>> require 7.93 of initscripts instead in the specfile and build.  That's
> >>> what we're doing currently.
> >>>
> >> aha
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Lance
> >>
> >>
> >>> Kevin
> >>>
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> >>>
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