[CentOS-mirror] particular mirror question

Fri Sep 15 17:53:12 UTC 2017
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>

Dear All,

I have a couple of questions about one specific mirror:

http://lug.mtu.edu

Today I have multitude "package not found" errors for that mirror when
updates are run on my machines. (Up to you giving up and going to
different mirror). I am reluctant to point all my machines to our public
mirror I maintain (I don't know why, maybe I am just lazy), and rely on
fastestmirror plugin. And this keeps happening even though mirror has OK
status on mirror status page:

http://mirror-status.centos.org/


My questions are:

1. does someone have a guess why that may be happening to me?

2. As my wild guess is: either that mirror starts throttling clients badly
after some amount of data, or there is some other similar reason why some
stuff appears inaccessible to clients. So: could someone contact mirror
maintainer with the question why someone has these problems. I am coming
from domain uchicago.edu (specifically from the following IP blocks:
128.135.4.0/24, 128.135.52.0/24, 128.135.20.0/25). Or: how can I find out
who the maintainer of that mirror is (I will contact the maintainer myself
then)?


Thanks.
Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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