Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-04 Thread Joey Hess
era eriksson wrote: I'm afraid your definition of down is a bit restrictive. I believe that e.g. mirrors.sunsite.dk will actually work for users in .dk but not allow access to others. I'm not sure if this is a happy solution, but the benefit of their mirroring anything at all is certainly

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-04 Thread Joey Hess
era eriksson wrote: I'm afraid your definition of down is a bit restrictive. I believe that e.g. mirrors.sunsite.dk will actually work for users in .dk but not allow access to others. I'm not sure if this is a happy solution, but the benefit of their mirroring anything at all is certainly

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Josip Rodin |Index: english/mirror/mirror_list.pl |=== |-open SRC, $mirror_source || |+open(SRC, $mirror_source) || | | Easy on the formatting... :) | | That's not formatting, the || die will never be

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-02 Thread Scott Kveton
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:55:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: And I've modified mirror_list.pl to use the new fields to generate a list that has only known-good mirrors on it. I took the approach of assuming that a site's http mirror is good if its ftp mirror checks out ok. As far as your script

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-02 Thread Joey Hess
Josip Rodin wrote: That's too optimistic, sadly. On a number of occasions I've seen people suddenly forget to configure their Apaches after an upgrade or something. It's usually that they only care about FTP for whatever reason and don't bother to check up on HTTP. However, it's much harder

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:47:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: That's too optimistic, sadly. On a number of occasions I've seen people suddenly forget to configure their Apaches after an upgrade or something. It's usually that they only care about FTP for whatever reason and don't bother to

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Josip Rodin |Index: english/mirror/mirror_list.pl |=== |-open SRC, $mirror_source || |+open(SRC, $mirror_source) || | | Easy on the formatting... :) | | That's not formatting, the || die will never be

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:47:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: That's too optimistic, sadly. On a number of occasions I've seen people suddenly forget to configure their Apaches after an upgrade or something. It's usually that they only care about FTP for whatever reason and don't bother to

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:11:39PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: (That's a LUG site which holds images for a bunch of distros. I didn't feel like creating a directory structure for something like that because it's only those few i386 binaries that are in there (no space or interest for other

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 08:29:22AM -0600, Josip Rodin wrote: mkdir -p 3.0_r0/i386 mv * 3.0_r0/i386 I won't do that, for precisely the same reasons you've started this whole thread: faster/easier availability to users. shrug Oh for heaven's sake, don't be difficult for the sake of it. mkdir

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-30 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Joey Hess wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Here is the current state of the cdrom mirror network. I decided not to try to track yada files since the web site only links to 2 mirrors for yada stuff. I added source cd checking. It only checks the first image for US and non-US.

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-30 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, jason andrade wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Joey Hess wrote: Many sites have old isos, or no isos, or a nonstandard directory structure or filenames, earning a 0 in the binary column. And of course a lot of mirrors don't have source. hmm, i have been skipping most of

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-30 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A few places have question marks; this is where the file exists, but seems to have the wrong size. I think some/all of those are really ok, and are due to weirdness in the ftp SIZE command on some servers. It may be that those servers are functioning

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-30 Thread Joey Hess
Heikki Vatiainen wrote: It may be that those servers are functioning correctly. Does you client do something like $ftp-type(I); to ask for non-translated files? I think you're right, I'm getting far fewer question marks in the report after calling $ftp-binary. The remaining ones are probably

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 03:24:43PM +1000, jason andrade wrote: Many sites have old isos, or no isos, or a nonstandard directory ~ structure or filenames, earning a 0 in the binary column. And of ~ course a lot of

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-30 Thread Joey Hess
I've more or less funished up the program to check the status of our ftp cdrom mirrors. My program generates a Mirrors.masterlist.status file, with some fields to indicate the state of the mirrors. The fields are chosen so we can run this program every few days, and stop pointing to a mirror if it

state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
Here is the current state of the cdrom mirror network. I decided not to try to track yada files since the web site only links to 2 mirrors for yada stuff. I added source cd checking. It only checks the first image for US and non-US. A few places have question marks; this is where the file exists,

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: Here is the current state of the cdrom mirror network. I decided not to try to track yada files since the web site only links to 2 mirrors for yada stuff. I added source cd checking. It only checks the first image for US and non-US. Correction, it checks for the first image