[CentOS-mirror] Mirroring Release of CentOS 5 Beta

[Lance Davis]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, William Dunn wrote:

>
> Mirror: Virginia Tech CS department http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/
> IP: 128.173.40.38
> URL for testing: http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/centos-beta/
> (also accessable http://via 128.173.40.38/centos/ )
>
> From the root of the site, /centos/ symlinks to the proper directory for the 
> beta, and is respected by apache.

Please can you make sure that beta.centos.org shows the centos dir , as at 
http://betamirror.nsc.liu.se/ rather than your which seems to show the 4.x 
dirs as at http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/centos-beta/ ???

Thanks
Lance

  >
> Still syncing, but should be done soon.
>
> ~Will
> VTCS
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> Lance Davis wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for all the offers of mirrors for the beta - we are going to 
>> restrict access to our servers by ip - so if you could all email what ip 
>> your server will be accessing from that would help - although we do have 
>> records of some.
>> 
>> The actual sync needs to be done from rsync 
>> beta-sync.centos.org::centos-beta
>> 
>> It is also accesible as us-beta-sync for us mirrors and eu-beta-sync for eu 
>> ones. We dont have geoip based dns set up for it yet.
>> 
>> If you could make sure that the tree you present looks the same as ours eg 
>> has a /centos/ dir , because all beta.centos.org need to look the same ...
>> 
>> Also the beta tree will be embargoed until a date/time to be emailled to 
>> this list. We will make the embargoed subdirectories non-publically 
>> readable until release time , but you will need to exclude them from rsync 
>> target, we will publish suitable exclude= for the rsync target, (and maybe 
>> also for ftp).
>> 
>> At release time we will make the  released dir publicaly readable so that 
>> he next sync will make it available.
>> 
>> We will check all mirrors contain suitable data before adding them to our 
>> dns , so please make sure that the tree is accessible either by ip or via a 
>> different virtual host.
>> 
>> So - what we need :-
>> 
>> mirror :
>> ip address for rsync access :
>> url for testing :
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Lance
>> 
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