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

Sun Apr 15 23:22:48 UTC 2007

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, archive-admin at mirrorservice.org wrote:

> 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?

72.21.40.10

probably LWP

> are you checking with a head request?

yes

But the same request works fine for the cd isos - this is the log :-

Name - UK Mirror Service - Univ. Kent - using url 
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.0/isos/i386/
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.0/isos/i386/sha1sum.txt
Check http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.0/isos/i386/CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-3of6.iso - good
Check http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.0/isos/i386/CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-2of6.iso - good
Check http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.0/isos/i386/CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-1of6.iso - good
Check http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.0/isos/i386/CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-6of6.iso - good
Check http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.0/isos/i386/CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-5of6.iso - good
Check http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.0/isos/i386/CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-DVD.iso - bad dvd - 403 Forbidden
Check http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.0/isos/i386/CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-4of6.iso - good

so whatever is happening seems dvd iso specific

Regards
Lance

  > > 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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