On 2024-02-28, Pontus Stenetorp <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed 28 Feb 2024, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> On 2024-02-28, Pontus Stenetorp <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Tue 27 Feb 2024, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> >> On 2024-02-27, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > On 2024-02-27, Peter Kay <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Just been to upgrade a rather old system I keep OpenBSD on for fun all
>> >> >> the way up from 6.9, and found bytemark no longer seem to be hosting
>> >> >> any OpenBSD content.
>> >> >
>> >> > That's why they have been removed from the mirrors list since 2022.
>> >> 
>> >> Oh hmm, seems I readded them as they had started working again, I'll drop 
>> >> them again.
>> >
>> > Since it has crossed my mind that scripting together some sort of "mirror 
>> > health" tool would be a fairly easy (yet probably valuable) contribution 
>> > to the community, is there currently anything akin to that in use by you 
>> > or others when maintaining the mirrors list? A few searches of mine turned 
>> > up empty, but it could equally well be that my search skills were lacking.
>> 
>> No need for another tool, we have mirmon and mirrorcheck.sh. The problem
>> is finding time to review results of checks, and making decisions
>> about what to include in ftp.html (for parts of the world with low
>> connectivity, a mirror which is slightly behind on snapshots can still
>> be very useful).
>
> Firstly, thank you of course for all your efforts maintaining the list. 
> Agreed about usefulness being very much circumstancial and thank you for 
> pointing me in the directions of two tools I have overlooked. mirmon is of 
> course net/mirmon in ports, but I have failed to locate mirrorcheck.sh in 
> both ports and src (even with a grep -ir), as well as with a web search. 
> Where does it live?

It's in the www tree.


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