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! -- *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: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org > gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlRXumMACgkQnVkHo1a+xU7FLwCdG+f/Pb+JCO/6VD1SHPyOiJ5j > y58AnAk6NsepvPq4nDyyMSBa/d8KWZU7 > =qYie > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20141103/10d4b893/attachment-0006.html>