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

[archive-admin at mirrorservice.org]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Lance Davis wrote:

> 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


Right I allow HEAD requests through but the GET redirects

a suspect the head is failing as apache not 2g frendly yet, I have tweeked
what does the checker report now.

Might be an idea to set your own user agent allows people to easily filer
in stats and suchlike.

Thanks.

Phill.

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