Centos Stream mirror recreation
by Hostico
Hello,
we had some hardware issues with out mirror server
(https://mirrors.hostico.ro) which caused it to be offline for about
24hours and then took some time to resync everything. In the meantime
our epel (https://mirrors.hostico.ro/fedora/epel/) and centos-stream
(http://mirrors.hostico.ro/centos-stream/) mirrors were taken offline
due to crawl errors. I updated the host from the mirror managed admin
panel a couple of days ago but since the links didn't reappear online
and the server was not crawled i tried deleting and readding the
categories. To my surprise i was only able to readd the "Fedora EPEL"
category . Is there a way to readd the Centos-stream one or should i
just stop syncing it ?
Thank you.
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Regards,
Sebastian Bobriuc
https://hostico.ro
4 days, 1 hour
Fedora Linux 40 final release
by Samyak Jain
Hi all,
Fedora 40 has been staged and should now be available at:
/pub/fedora/linux/releases/40/
/pub/alt/releases/40/
/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/40/
Here are the following statistics:
591G /pub/fedora/linux/releases/40/
42G /pub/alt/releases/40/
297G /pub/fedora-secondary/releases/40/
RPMs are hard linked to pub/fedora/linux/development/40/Everything/
Our release is Tuesday, 2024-04-23 at 14:00 UTC.
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Samyak Jain
(Fedora Release Engineering)
fas: jnsamyak
irc: jnsamyak
1 week, 3 days
Abusive repodata downloads
by Carsten Otto
Hi,
I'm one of the admins of ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de, which offers fedora
and fedora-epel among other distributions and projects. I've recently
noticed that many Fedora users (including EPEL, CentOS, and BlackArch)
frequently re-download "repodata" files that haven't been updated since
the previous request.
As some of those files are rather large ("filelists") and others are hit
extremely often, I added fail2ban rules to deny users access to our
service for some time.
Please adjust your software so that file mirrors like ours are not
(ab)used like this. Files that haven't been changed usually shouldn't be
downloaded.
Thanks
Carsten
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Dr. Carsten Otto
http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/
2 weeks, 3 days
Remove support@it4i.cz
by Carsten Otto
Hi,
could you please remove support(a)it4i.cz (or *.it4i.cz?) from the list?
They keep spamming me with useless support ticket messages and don't
respond to my complaints.
Thanks
Carsten
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Dr. Carsten Otto
http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/
2 weeks, 3 days
Re: Abusive repodata downloads
by Michael Meier (FTP-Admin)
On 4/2/24 12:35, Carsten Otto wrote:
> I'm one of the admins of ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de, which offers fedora
> and fedora-epel among other distributions and projects. I've recently
> noticed that many Fedora users (including EPEL, CentOS, and BlackArch)
> frequently re-download "repodata" files that haven't been updated since
> the previous request.
I'm not sure if we're seing the same thing that Carsten is seing, but it
certainly sounds similiar: We are seing a massively increased number of
requests to our EPEL mirror (but _not_ our CentOS-old mirror, and we
have no CentOS-stream mirror).
More precisely, starting March 27 (last Wednesday), the number of
requests to the EPEL-mirror has more than quadrupled, from about
400k-ish to 1.5M-2.5M per day [1], as has the number of transferred
bytes, from about 1 TB to 4-7 TB per day [2].
That certainly does look like something is wrong.
Taking a closer look at the 1.79M EPEL-requests yesterday, 1.57M of them
reported an user-agent of "urlgrabber/3.10 yum/3.4.3", which I guess is
CentOS7? But there has not been a recent update to yum in CentOS7, has
there?
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?
[1]
https://ftp.fau.de/cgi-bin/show-ftp-stats.cgi?statstype=2&what=files&mirr...
[2]
https://ftp.fau.de/cgi-bin/show-ftp-stats.cgi?statstype=2&what=bytes&mirr...
Regards,
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Michael Meier, FTP-Admin
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
Martensstrasse 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Tel.: +49 9131 85-28973, Fax: +49 9131 302941
rrze-ftp-admins(a)fau.de
blogs.fau.de/ftp/
3 weeks, 5 days
