[CentOS-mirror] mirror.duomenucentras.lt

Wed Oct 29 18:29:14 UTC 2014
The Manager <noc at cj2.nl>

Johnny Hughes schreef op 29-10-2014 18:59:
> On 10/29/2014 12:26 PM, Martynas UAB "Duomenų Centras" wrote:
>> Hello,
>>   Now for CentOS 6.6 updates don't see our mirror once more...
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org
>> [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Fabian Arrotin
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 2:09 PM
>> To: centos-mirror at centos.org
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] mirror.duomenucentras.lt
>>
>> On 18/09/14 10:02, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>>> On 16/09/14 11:48, Martynas UAB Duomen? Centras wrote:
>>>> Hello, Noticed that our mirror: mirror.duomenucentras.lt are not
>>>> listed in updates repo for centos5, centos6 or centos7 yum clean all;
>>>> yum upgrade Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Cleaning repos:
>>>> base epel extras updates Cleaning up Everything Loaded plugins:
>>>> fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors epel/metalink |  27 kB
>>>> 00:00 * base: mirror.duomenucentras.lt * epel:
>>>> mirror.duomenucentras.lt * extras: mirror.duomenucentras.lt *
>>>> updates: mirror.skylink-datacenter.de
>>>>
>>> <snip>
>>> Hi,
>>> Sorry for the late answer, but was (and I'm still) busy on some
>>> changes for the upcoming 5.11 release.
>>> Something to keep in mind is that the mirror list that is returned by
>>> the mirrorlist nodes are produced by the central mirror checker
>>> script. That script verifies each release/arch/repo and it seems that
>>> it was thinking your mirror isn't current for the updates repository :
>>> http://mirror.duomenucentras.lt/centos/6.5/updates/x86_64/repodata/rep
>>> omd.xml
>>
>> error from cache 1410915677
>>> I see that the crawler script is currently running/validating mirrors
>>> so let' see. I've though just checked/compared the repomd.xml files
>>> and there are correct.
>>> I'll try to keep an eye on that, but if that doesn't work, feel free
>>> to ping me back.
>>> Cheers,
>>
>> Hi, I verified this morning on the node producing the mirror lists, and
>> there was a job that was frozen and so lists for updates repo were generated
>> from previously generated cache.
>> I've now verified and :
>> #curl -4
>> 'http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?repo=updates&release=6&arch=x86_64&cc=lt'
>> http://centos.mirror.serveriai.lt/6.5/updates/x86_64/
>> http://mirror.bacloud.com/centos/6.5/updates/x86_64/
>> http://mirror.duomenucentras.lt/centos/6.5/updates/x86_64/
>> http://mirror-pl.kielcetechnologypark.net/centos/6.5/updates/x86_64/
>> http://ftp.prz.edu.pl/centos/6.5/updates/x86_64/
>> http://ftp.ps.pl/pub/Linux/CentOS/6.5/updates/x86_64/
>> http://centos.po.opole.pl/6.5/updates/x86_64/
>> http://centos.hitme.net.pl/6.5/updates/x86_64/
>> http://centos.slaskdatacenter.com/6.5/updates/x86_64/
>> http://centos.komster.pl/6.5/updates/x86_64/
>>
>> does that look better now ?
>>
> Please remember that mirrorlist picks a number of mirrors from a give
> country at random .. and goes to 10 ... if there are are more than 10
> mirrors in a given country, then a given mirror may not show up.
>
> Each repo gets a random number of mirrors and the mirrorlists are
> updated at intervals throught the day (every couple of hours) .. so
> updates has different mirrors than os and extras, etc.  The actual list
> of 10 mirrors is random.
>
> Once the list of 10 is obtained, then yum uses fastestmirror to rate
> those ten mirrors, BUT there is no way to ensure a specific mirror makes
> it into the initial random 10.
Does anyone know how the list is generated ?
Do these mirrors change or do they remain the same ?

Regards,

Anne Hofstra
CJ2