[CentOS-mirror] private mirror question(s)

Mon Nov 3 19:01:58 UTC 2014
Gene Liverman <gliverma at westga.edu>

Fabian,

There was some talk several months ago about someone maybe setting up
Mirror Manager for CentOS as a replacement for the current system... did
anything ever come of that? It seems to work very well for Fedora so I
can't help but be curious. Thanks!




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*Gene Liverman*
Systems Administrator
Information Technology Services
University of West Georgia
gliverma at westga.edu


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:

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> On 03/11/14 18:14, Chad Feller wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I currently mirror CentOS, Fedora, and Fedora-EPEL at my
> > university. For the Fedora side of things, I registered with their
> > mirror manager system, checked it as a private mirror, gave it our
> > netblock, and ASN, and people at our university are automatically
> > routed to it.
> >
> > Unless I'm missing something, for CentOS it is a little harder.
> > There doesn't seem to be a mirror manager like system available,
> > and everything is manually updated via this mailing list.  For
> > systems managed by me, this hasn't been a problem as I use Puppet
> > to push out a custom CentOS-Base.repo file.  But for everyone else
> > on campus, they can only use the mirror if a), then know about it,
> > and b) if they feel like editing their CentOS-base file.  If they
> > were automatically directed to it, as they are with Fedora, that
> > would be ideal.
>
> Other option (transparent for such users) is to redirect
> mirrorlist.centos.org to an internal machine, and answering with just
> your internal mirror.
>
> >
> > I would just make it a public mirror, but there is some university
> >  politics about opening it up to the outside world as we have to
> > pay for our bandwidth.
> >
> > So my questions are as follows:
> >
> > 1) Is there anything in place to register a private mirror with the
> >  CentOS mirroring infrastructure?
>
> No, and the current mirrorlist process would need access to also list
> such mirror in the currently "tested" mirrors list. So that will not
> work in your case.
>
> >
> > 2) Is there a way I can be allowed to sync from
> > us-msync.centos.org?  I was able to sync from it for well over a
> > year until it was shut off a few months back preceding the release
> > of CentOS 7.  (I'm currently having to sync from a second tier
> > mirror.)
>
> No, and the reason was explained in the past : we obviously want
> faster releases to public mirrors, as themselves will be used to serve
> CentOS trees/updates/isos to the outside world. So your option is to
> do what you're doing right now : fetching from a public mirror listed
> on http://centos.org/download/mirrors/
>
>
> - --
>
> Fabian Arrotin
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