[EXTERNAL EMAIL] Having the same problem here, load times are horrible.
Josh G On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 1:35 PM Erinn Looney-Triggs < [email protected]> wrote: > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > The short version: > > You need to look into whatever is causing http connections to take so > long to the Dell linux yum repository and from the looks of it every > other repo on there, but a really fast fix, is to have your mirror > script return https instead of http, which is probably a better solution > all the way around. > > > The longer version with examples: > > Folks for a number of days now all of our systems have been failing due > to Dell's repositories not functioning correctly. > > I don't know what the exact root of the issue is on your side, but I can > say that an http connection to download a repomd.xml file takes an > unacceptably long amount of time, whereas an https connection is rather > quick. > > It is fine if you want everything to go over https, in fact I encourage > it, however, your mirrors.cgi script is still outputting http links, and > as such connections are timing out, examples follow: > > > > This connection took two minutes to complete: > > wget > > http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/os_dependent/RHEL6_64/repodata/repomd.xml > --2019-02-15 11:20:59-- > > http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/os_dependent/RHEL6_64/repodata/repomd.xml > Resolving linux.dell.com... 143.166.156.113 > Connecting to linux.dell.com|143.166.156.113|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found > Location: > > https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/os_dependent/RHEL6_64/repodata/repomd.xml > [following] > --2019-02-15 11:22:40-- > > https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/os_dependent/RHEL6_64/repodata/repomd.xml > Connecting to linux.dell.com|143.166.156.113|:443... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 2383 (2.3K) [text/xml] > Saving to: “repomd.xml.1” > > 100%[======================================>] 2,383 --.-K/s in > 0s > > 2019-02-15 11:22:45 (174 MB/s) - “repomd.xml.1” saved [2383/2383] > > > > This connection took much less time: > > wget > > https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/os_dependent/RHEL6_64/repodata/repomd.xml > --2019-02-15 11:20:29-- > > https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/os_dependent/RHEL6_64/repodata/repomd.xml > Resolving linux.dell.com... 143.166.156.113 > Connecting to linux.dell.com|143.166.156.113|:443... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 2383 (2.3K) [text/xml] > Saving to: “repomd.xml” > > 100%[======================================>] 2,383 --.-K/s in > 0s > > 2019-02-15 11:20:33 (155 MB/s) - “repomd.xml” saved [2383/2383] > > > > Your mirror script: > > curl > ' > https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/mirrors.cgi?osname=el6&basearch=x86_64&native=1 > ' > > http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/os_dependent/RHEL6_64 > > > -Erinn > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge >
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