On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 11:06:08AM +0200, Michael Meier (FTP-Admin) wrote:
Have there perhaps some EPEL mirrors been dropped in Germany
recently, or is
something wrong with the mirrorlist-load-balancing, that could explain the
sudden surge in requests?
Not sure if mirrors have been dropped but the current list of mirrors
for a country can be queried using:
$ curl
"https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-7&arch=x86_64&country=de"
Which currently gives me 16 mirrors.
Worldwide I see 152 mirrors for EPEL.
$ curl
"https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-7&arch=x86_64&country=global"
The load-balancing can be seen by looking at the output of the list. It
should change each time you query it.
The normal mode of operation is without the "country" parameter. The
result is different for each IP address doing the query, but I currently
get:
$ curl
"https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-7&arch=x86_64"
# repo = epel-7 arch = x86_64 country = DE country = NO country = RU country = TR country
= PL country = IT country = CH country = MK country = FI country = HU country = UA country
= LV country = GB country = SE country = AT country = SI country = CZ country = NL country
= SK country = ES country = MD country = BG country = DK country = RO country = IS country
= EE country = PT country = FR
Over 70 mirrors for my location in Europe. The first line starting with
"# repo" gives you an explanation which mirrors are included in the
list. yum/dnf actually uses metalink, but the result is more or less the
same. You can replace "mirrorlist" with "metalink" to see the
difference.
Adrian