Anssi Johansson kirjoitti 17.9.2017 klo 0.51: > Valeri Galtsev kirjoitti 15.9.2017 klo 20.53: >> 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)? > > I noticed that http://lug.mtu.edu/centos/ redirects to > http://mirrors.lug.mtu.edu/centos/ and I've now adjusted the mirror > database to have the latter link. This avoids a redirect for each > request, helping with any possible rate limits there might be. > > As you said, mirror monitoring does not show any problems, so I tested > the mirror myself by setting up a CentOS 7.3.1611 instance at UpCloud. > By coincidence they have a data center in Chicago, so I got to test this > from a host close to you. Obviously the routing will be different. > > And at this point I found out that their > http://mirrors.lug.mtu.edu/centos/7.4.1708/os/x86_64/ directory does not > have a Packages subdirectory, and the same goes for the updates > directory http://mirrors.lug.mtu.edu/centos/7.4.1708/updates/x86_64/ > > Those directories do have up-to-date repodata directories, and those are > checked by the mirror checking scripts, along with the timestamps in the > root directory and some files in the isos directory. The packages > themselves are not checked. The timestamps seem to get updated properly, > so there's something odd going on with their syncs. > > I have now temporarily excluded this mirror from the mirrorlists until > this issue gets resolved. I'll try contacting the mirror admins > directly. Thanks for the heads up. Looks like this has now been fixed. I have now re-enabled this mirror for the mirrorlists.