[CentOS-mirror] RFC email for late/lagging CentOS public mirrors

[Lance Davis]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Mote, Ty R. wrote:

> Would it be that difficult to collect the data and require all new mirrors to provide the email address? Maybe set a deadline to have a responsible person address on file or you are removed?

We already do have the email addresses of most of the mirror admins.

The others would not be hard to obtain.

The problem is that unresponsive mirrors are likely to have unresponsive 
mirror admins.

I would propose a single final email to the list prior to removal of a 
mirror - just in case someone is lurking ...

Regards
Lance


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> From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org [centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Pekka Savola [psavola at nic.funet.fi]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 14:49
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> Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] RFC email for late/lagging CentOS public mirrors
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> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Tru Huynh wrote:
>> I would like your feedback on the proper way to warn the public mirrors
>> monitored at http://mirror-status.centos.org/ that something is
>> going wrong.
>>
>> I was thinking of:
>>
>> 1st email inquiry : "what's up?"
>> - timestamp > 3 days late or server not responding for > 3 days
>>
>> 2nd email inquiry : "what's wrong?"
>> - timestamp > 7 days late or server not responding for > 7 days
>>
>> If no news after the 2nd inquiry, remove the server from the
>> list after another grace delay of 7 days.
>>
>> Of course that the general idea, there can be lots of good reason to have a
>> late/lagging mirror. We can just also remove the server from the mirrorlist
>> (most visible annoyance from a lamda user perspective, imho).
>
> A good idea -- but.. where do you send the email to?  I'm not aware that
> the email addresses of responsible folks taking care of the mirrors have
> been collected at any point.
>
> Did you mean "broadcast the warning on centos-mirror mailing-list"?  If
> yes, the proposed mechanism seems too noisy.
>
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