From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25978 invoked by alias); 25 Feb 2008 03:01:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 25971 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Feb 2008 03:01:08 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-72-74-94-250.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (72.74.94.250) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:00:26 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ED3A13C16D; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:00:19 -0500 (EST) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 950C515DE55; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:00:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:03:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: Joe Laffey , overseers@gcc.gnu.org, Jonathan Larmour , Gerald Pfeifer Subject: Re: GCC mirror changing IPs (fwd) Message-ID: <20080225030019.GA28787@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Joe Laffey , overseers@gcc.gnu.org, Jonathan Larmour , Gerald Pfeifer References: <47C1EB1E.9050106@eCosCentric.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47C1EB1E.9050106@eCosCentric.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q1/txt/msg00119.txt.bz2 On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:09:34PM +0000, Jonathan Larmour wrote: >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:16:41 -0600 (CST) >> Subject: GCC mirror changing IPs >> Hi, >> We operate a GCC release mirror in St. Louis, MO >> (mirrors.laffeycomputer.com). >> This server has changed IP addresses, which is normally no worry on your >> end. >> But the old IP had special access to the master server to be able to >> download >> the releases right when they came out, and thus take some load off of your >> servers. This new IP address does not seem to have that. >> The old IP was 66.165.104.114 and the new IP is 71.91.230.170. Both should >> have >> a revers DNS PTR of pong.laffeycomputer.com. > > Looking at the current mirror setup, there's already an entry in the > mirrors class: > From *.laffeycomputer.com > >However looking more closely, all the mirrors only help access to >cygwin releases, not any others. There is no priority access for GCC >releases (at least not in the FTPD configuration), and the timestamp on >the file is July last year so this has been the case at least since >then, but probably ever. Right. We were limiting access to only certain sites for cygwin releases because ftp access was swamping the old sourceware's connection. AFAIK, there is nothing that needs to be done for a mirror. I think that most mirrors these days use rsync, though. cgf