[CentOS-mirror] FTP is on its way out

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:17:06AM +0300, Anssi Johansson wrote:
> We marked FTP as deprecated on the CreatePublicMirrors wiki page in
> December, and now it's time to move to the next step in getting rid of FTP.
> Setting up firewall rules for FTP is an unneeded headache for both mirror
> operators and clients, and establishing connections to FTP sites is slower
> than establishing connections to HTTP sites.
> 
> I have a neat script that sends notifications to mirror operators if it
> detects problems with mirrors. Some of you may have seen such emails. The
> email has also included information about nonworking FTP URLs. From now on,
> however, the script will silently remove any nonworking FTP URLs from the
> database if the FTP URL has been unreachable for 8 days (the default
> threshold for notifications), instead of sending a nag email to the mirror
> operator. If your FTP URL has disappeared from
> https://www.centos.org/download/mirrors/ , this is the reason.
> 
> We will eventually remove all FTP URLs from the mirror database and stop
> including FTP URLs in the output of mirrorlist.centos.org. The blockers here
> are the few mirrors that only have an FTP URL listed (no HTTP). Two of them
> seem to actually have their mirror available over HTTP as well, but the HTTP
> URL is not listed in our database. I've sent an email to them last week
> asking if it's OK to add their HTTP URL, and I've also sent an email to the
> other FTP mirrors asking if they could make their mirror available over
> HTTP. Once these issues been resolved (or a sufficient amount of time has
> passed) we can drop the FTP URLs from our database.

Just as an additional data point. Fedora also removed FTP URLs about two
years ago: https://github.com/fedora-infra/mirrormanager2/issues/99

There have been no issues and no complaints concerning the FTP URLs
removal.

		Adrian
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