Hi Tru, What are the current settings for removing mirrors from the mirror list? I was under the impression that there is already an automated script that removes any mirror which is not responding. Or perhaps that's only for the mirrorlist and not mirror-status? Regards, Alex On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:20:51 +0100 Tru Huynh <tru at centos.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > First, let me thank you all for providing a public CentOS mirror. > There are now over 170 sites registered :D > > 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). > > Any input welcome, > > Cheers, > > Tru > -- > Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B