On 01.03.2013 15:20, Anssi Johansson wrote: > Thank you for your overwhelming feedback regarding my previous message > to the mailing list. If you need to leave this mailing list, please > click the link at the bottom of this email and see the "To unsubscribe > from CentOS-mirror.." option at the bottom of that page. Ah, that's how it works, I never could figure that one out :) > It appears that if there's also an HTTP URL specified for the mirror, > only the HTTP URL is checked and not the FTP URL. Thus it may be > possible that some FTP URLs have become stale over time and those > problems are not detected by the mirror checking scripts. Yes and no. The mirror-status scripts do not check for valid ftp URLs if there is an http URL instead. The scripts which populate mirrorlist.centos.org actually *do* check for validity of the content of the ftp server. But yes, actually nobody checks the logs of those except if someone requires help. > I had a look at the FTP URLs, and noticed problems with the following > mirrors: Thanks, I am going to take a look at that (and the rsync stuff) over the weekend. Great detective work, I am grateful for that. Regards, Ralph