FW: [EZNETSOLS #25448] [OSS] Fedora 15 staged for mirroring, release Tuesday

[Matt_Domsch at Dell.com]

This is the first release we're doing since moving the master mirrors from Red Hat I/T control to our control.

With that, we dropped all the historical mirrors that were using download.fedora.redhat.com and were in its rsync ACLs, forcing people to use the tiering.

Right now, we have only a few mirrors reporting having the content (per the mirrorlists):
http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/15/Fedora/
ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/
http://mirror.seas.harvard.edu/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/
http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/releases/15/Fedora/
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/

Should we consider:
a) force mirrors to change to tiering if they want the bits before Day 0.
b) opening up the restrictions on dl.fp.o so the historical mirrors don't have to make changes (at a cost of bandwidth from dl*)
c) bitflipping really early (e.g. ~now)
d) stop using bitflipping entirely

?

Thoughts?

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
Social Media and Community Professional
Dell | Office of the CTO

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Wicks [mailto:redhat-mirror at wicks.co.nz] 
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 4:20 PM
To: A private discussion group for official mirrors of ftp.redhat.com
Cc: Domsch, Matt; mirror-admin at oss.eznetsols.org; mirror-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [EZNETSOLS #25448] [OSS] Fedora 15 staged for mirroring, release Tuesday

On 20/05/2011 11:58 p.m., Matt_Domsch at Dell.com wrote:
> To get the bits ahead of release day, you must be syncing from one of the Tiered mirrors (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring/Tiering), which pull using a different rsync module that allows mirrors to pull not-yet-public bits.  You're currently running into the "pre-bitflip restriction" on the completely public download site.
>
> --

OK, well I have to admit I dont read all the posts to this list due to lack of time, and providing a mirror is a public service I pay for out of my pocket (with donated bandwidth) to give back. But the bottom line is I saw the Fedora 15 is ready to sync and found as per above my mirror is locked out. None of the "Tier1/2" have 15 as a directory available.  
Can you please tell me in easy terms how I am supposed to sync if my mirror server is locked out ? I have been running as a Redhat mirror since Redhat 7 and have not had this before.

Mirror - ftp.wicks.co.nz  ftp/http/rsync Locantion _ new Zealand

Thanks