[CentOS-mirror] [CentOS-mirror-announce] Important notification for the (upcoming) 7 release.

[Robert Israel]

Dear CentOS mirror administrators,

  I've inherited admin for centos.aol.com, and it appears we've run 
afoul of the block mentioned below, as we download from msync on a 
different IP than we serve out from.

  Per your instructions on this message, I'm responding to this list to 
request allowance of the following IP addresses...

205.188.84.37
205.188.84.38

  ...to rsync using the CentOS module.  For reference, below is the IP 
of our outgoing mirror VIP:

205.188.81.38

  If there's any questions/concerns, please let me know.

  Thanks!

 -Rob


> Hi Mirrors Admin,
>
> Karanbir and myself had a conversation about CentOS 7 and external
> mirrors and here are some points we'd like to report:
>
> First, we'd like to say thank you for the CentOS Mirror you actually
> provide for all CentOS users all around the world.
>
> Second point I wanted to mention is the fact that CentOS 7 is slowly
> approaching.
> What does that mean for you ? Don't be surprized if in the following
> days/week(s), your CentOS mirror will start consuming more disk space
> and bandwidth.
> We have currently no fixed disk space usage stats for 7, but we expect
> it to be ~40Gb (os/updates/iso images) and that will grow with new
> updates being released when they'll appear.
> Keep in mind that that will be for i386/x86_64 and we just plan on
> releasing x86_64 now, i386 being a community effort, and considered
> secondary arch (so building in parallel but we'll release x86_64 even if
> there is no i386 build "ready")
>
> To better serve you, we'll start implementing the following changes in
> the next 24 hours :
> - we'll restrict the CentOS (and - legacy but pointing to the same path
> - CentOS-incdvd) rsyncd modules access to IP currently being marked as
> "official" CentOS public mirrors
> - That means that we'll currently stop adding new mirrors until Seven 
> is out
> - That also means that if you're using a different outgoing IP address
> than the reverse ip lookup for your mirror(s), you'll be blocked (if
> that's the case, contact us on the centos-mirror list and we'll fix that )
>
> Can we also remind you
> (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreatePublicMirrors) that :
> * if your mirror is located in the .us, you're encouraged to use the
> us-msync.centos.org::CentOS host/rsync module
> * if your mirror is located somewhere in Europe, you're encourage to use
> the  eu-msync.centos.org::CentOS host/rsync module
> * Mirror out of the .us/.eu scope can use the generic
> msync.centos.org::CentOS host/rsync module (multiple nodes using GeoIP
> to redirect to the nearby country/host)
>
> We count on you for a successful CentOS 7 release, and would like to
> thank you once again.
>
> If you have questions, feel free to start a new thread on the
> centos-mirror list,
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> -- 
>
> Fabian Arrotin
> The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org
> gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab