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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 793 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20180830/16a1785e/attachment-0006.sig>