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Re: Gcc mirros check
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Luca Benini <lbenini at csr dot unibo dot it>
- Cc: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:37:45 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Gcc mirros check
- References: <419E4971.7070604@csr.unibo.it>
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Luca Benini wrote:
> At the moment the scripts working fine for ftp mirrors than use the same
> directory tree than gcc.gnu.org.
> Http mirrors work, but need again some debug (next week?).
> The problems are with site as
> ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/gcc/
> where standard dir tree in non used.
> For check status of these site i need to use timestamp of WHOLE gcc
> distribution (timestamp obtained via ls -R ), but as you understand this
> way require a big bandwidth from both side.
> Well, what i must do?
>
> 1) drop mirror
Drop (after providing a warning). Mirrors that do not really mirror us
potentially cause more confusion and troubles than they help.
> In the last two week ftp://ring.crl.go.jp/pub/GNU/gcc/ was always down.
> (Remove it?)
I have done link checks for our web site as a whole for some time and some
mirror sites (including this one, I believe), were always unreachable. It
seems that they only allow connections from specific IP ranges and/or
domain names (usually from the same country).
Gerald