Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:43:35 +0300 From: George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Monitor mirror status via 'mirmon'? Message-ID: <200509211943.35799.danchev@spnet.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20050921092640.jdp@polstra.com> References: <XFMail.20050921092640.jdp@polstra.com>
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On Wednesday 21 September 2005 19:26, John Polstra wrote: > On 14-Sep-2005 Peter Pentchev wrote: > > In an out-of-band discussion related to ftp/www/cvsup.bg.FreeBSD.org, > > George Danchev mentioned 'mirmon', a utility for monitoring the > > 'up-to-dateness' of project mirror sites based on the timestamp of > > a file touched hourly on the master site: > > > > http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/henkp/mirmon/ > > > > Would it be a good idea to run something like that for the FreeBSD > > mirrors? I think a file with a timestamp updated hourly would not > > put too much stress on the mirrors. > > Sorry to weigh in so late on this. I just got home from vacation. > It sounds like a good idea to me. The extra load on the mirrors > would be negligible. FWIW I think it should be hosted official like mirmon.FreeBSD.org (or mirrorstatus?), whilst mirrorlist.FreeBSD.org should stay as is. Another example is http://mirrors.freesbie.org/ -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB
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