Today the rsync access on rsync.archlinux.org was disabled for all mirrors that have not moved to 2-tier scheme. There have been way too much time for any mirror to switch to tiered scheme, I wrote a personal email to every admin who has a known email address, but still more than half of all mirrors either sync directly from archlinux.org or from unknown upstream. Those who are not tier2 either don't have a known contact address, or do not respond. So it is completely reasonable to shut down access for such mirrors. pacman-mirrorlist needs to be updated to reflect the change, however I don't know how to better automate this. Possibilities: * mark all untiered mirrors as inactive (this will mess with other "really inactive" mirrors, but those "really inactive" could be removed completely IMO) * change generation of pacman-mirrorlist to skip Untiered db records What do you think, Dan? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)