Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/06/29/23:06:58
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 01:16:41AM -0400, Simon Valiquette wrote:
>I am sending this here, as It seems that there is not any better
>mailing list for problems related to mirrors.
>
>One Cygwin user warned me that when using our mirror, he got a warning
>telling him that our mirror is not anymore on the Cygwin official
>mirror list.
>
>Taken from this page (http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html) I read the
>following:
>
>"If you are a mirror site administrator and your site was previously
>listed but has dropped off that means that the automatic software has
>determined that you are not up-to-date. Your site will be re-added
>automatically when you become current. There is no need to contact
>anyone about this."
>
>According to my logs, my Cygwin mirror never has been out of date (I
>checked up to the 21st of June) and as been updated since twice a day
>without any problems. So can someone please tell me why my mirror was
>dropped, and why It wasn't readded automatically?
>
>By the way, my mirror is still listed on the official mirror page.
The fact that you are listed on the official mirror page means that your
mirror is an official mirror. You are also listed in setup.exe. I just
checked.
>Also, It would be very useful for all mirror if this script would
>automatically email the faulty mirror sysadmin each time a problem is
>detected. That would helps a lot to detect and fix problems soon after
>they happens.
>
>PS: Please cc: to gulus-miroir AT listes DOT USherbrooke DOT ca, the official
>email address for any issue regarding this mirror.
Oddly enough, that isn't the email address listed for this mirror in our
database. That's one reason why we don't contact sites automatically.
I'm not interested in seeing bounce email. I have updated the contact
information for your mirror however.
The other reason is that it would be close to spam to be sending out
notices when mirrors drop off for a while. This could be due to network
problems at sourceware.org or on the other end. The messages wouldn't
be very precise and I'm not too keen on entering into a dialog with
people who are trying to figure out why they got email.
I did send out a bunch of messages to people who were supposed to be
administrators a couple of weeks ago. Half of the people didn't answer.
So, since we have more than 100 mirrors, I'm not too worried if a mirror
drops off. There are 54 bad mirrors in the database and, for those
which aren't just completely dead, I have contacted many of them to
alert them to the fact that they are no longer a Cygwin mirror.
Finally, you found the mirrors web page and you quoted text from it
but you missed the part that said:
"If a site is listed here that seems to be out-of-date for some period
of time, that could mean that there is a problem. Contact sourcemaster
at this site to report this potential problem. sourcemaster is also
the place to send requests to be added to this list."
sourcemaster is the right place for mirror concerns.
cgff
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