[WBEL-users] Mirrors out of sync

[Kirby Bohling]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:18:07PM -0500, John Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Kirby Bohling wrote:

> > Any chance there could be a link to someplace near
> > http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub (it could be deeper in, but at least to
> > there) on the downloads page?
> 
> At this point I wish I could wall off /pub entirely.  Our outbound has 
> been nailed open for the last month or two.  A new up2date will hopefully 
> fix this problem such that I won't be cringing at the thought of anyone 
> directly accessing /pub.... so long as nobody tries to make a direct grab 
> for the next set of .iso files.  :)
> 

	Understood.  I appreciate the bandwidth you provide for free.  In a
lot of ways, I wish you'd just do a permanent Apache redirect to one
of the mirrors (assuming they are okay with it).

	I'm not sure if YUM speaks enough HTTP, or if it has security
reasons not to follow redirects.  It could save you a ton of
bandwidth, and not break anything (once the mirrors get caught up).

	Just accept the requests long enough to point them to server
with adequate bandwidth (you could probably even round robin them).
Then all the existing YUM config files would work, without crashing
your bandwidth.

> > 2.  What's up with the mirror latency?  As of this writing
> > 2004-05-19 13:19 CST, neither of these mirrors have updates that are
> > on the WhiteBox site.
> 
> An rsync from ncsu has been in progress going on two days now.  But 
> between about a gig and a half of files to move and a boatload of folks 
> running up2date directly against whiteboxlinux.org (failure to edit 
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources) things are lagged to heck and gone.
> 

Wow, how come it's a gig and a half?  I didn't notice that many
updates had come out.  The joys of doing the right thing and not
hitting the primary site, ends up meaning I'm behind on security
updates....  The joys of being a good net citizen.

	Thanks,
		Kirby