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[arch-mirrors] IP White List Update - From TUNA Mirror Site.
by TUNA Mirror Team 22 Oct '17

22 Oct '17

Hi, there I'm the admin from TUNA mirror site. We are currently facing a networking problem with our servers. We are now enabling a new IP address as the source address for syncing. Please add the following IP address to the white list and do NOT remove existing ones. - 59.66.131.247 - 166.111.69.229 If there will be any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Cheers, Miao Wang

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[arch-mirrors] arlm.tyzoid.com back online / post-mortim
by Tyler Dence 23 Sep '17

23 Sep '17

Hey, just wanted to give a post-mortim on this downtime incident. At 1am ET on Thursday morning, HTTP requests on either port 80 or 443 started timing out on the server running the mirror. My automated downtime monitors did not alert me, since the server could still be pinged, just not accessed on 80/443. Doing some diagnosis this morning into the issue revealed that the disk had filled, and apache was not able to respond to requests appropriately. Suffice to say, I'm going to implement better monitoring in the future for this case, but the server is back up now and appears to be synching properly. I will be monitoring this for the next few hours to ensure stability.

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[arch-mirrors] Mirror retirement: cosmos.illinois.edu
by Chris Kuehn 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

Hi, Please remove cosmos.illinois.edu from the mirror list at your convenience. We’re planning its retirement and I’d like to give clients a few weeks to find a new source before it’s shut off. Thanks, Chris

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[arch-mirrors] leaseweb.net mirror URLs changed and new locations added
by Florian Pritz 22 Aug '17

22 Aug '17

Hi, The leaseweb.net tier 1 mirrors have changed their URLs and some new locations have been added. Admins that sync from a leaseweb mirror, please update your source URL to reflect the change. The old URLs will continue to be available for "some time". The new URLs can be found here: https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/leaseweb.net/ Florian

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[arch-mirrors] Mirror Stats Project - Using weblogs to gather useful information
by Tyler Dence 22 Aug '17

22 Aug '17

I've made a post about this topic on the arch forums, but I thought I'd bring it to the attention of the mailing list here. So I run a mirror over at https://arlm.tyzoid.com/, and I decided it would be cool to see if I can't get some interesting information back from the logs generated. Currently, I have a list of the most downloaded packages (compiled nightly): - https://stats.arlm.tyzoid.com/pkgstats.json - https://stats.arlm.tyzoid.com/pkgstats.txt And a graph of network traffic: - https://stats.arlm.tyzoid.com/ I'm wondering if there's any other information that might be interesting to make available, or if anyone else here is interested in contributing some of their own collected data for the stats project. If so, we should get a project up on github sometime to have a unified method/web viewer. Some caveats that I impose for now, to protect privacy: - IP addresses will be available, nor any IP Prefix. - Geographic data will be made available at no more than a weekly granularity (exception for summary data which spans multiple weeks) - Geographic data will not be made available with more granularity than state/province. Perhaps there should also be some discussion regarding what logs are kept/deleted?

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[arch-mirrors] Updated mirror script for better delay values on our website
by Florian Pritz 12 Aug '17

12 Aug '17

Hi, Quite a while ago I introduced the lastupdate file so that mirrors that want to sync very often (every minute) can do so without incurring high traffic overhead. The script first checks if that file changed before starting rsync. However, this simple approach did not work well with the delay statistics calculated by our website[1]. Because of this I have now updated the script so that if no changes are detected, the lastsync timestamp is still updated. I have also improved documentation and performed some refactoring. You can grab the updated script at the same location as before. Colorful link: https://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/bin/tree/syncrepo.sh DL link: https://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/bin/plain/syncrepo.sh Tier 2 admins please note that this will only reduce your mirror delay to nearly 0 if the tier 1 mirror you sync from also uses this script. If they do not use it, you will have roughly the same delay as them. I plan to contact tier 1 admins that are using the old script soon, but first I want to see how much effect sending the mail to just the mailing list has. [1] https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/ Florian

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[arch-mirrors] HTTPs added
by Carsten Otto 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

Hi, ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de also supports HTTPs. Bye, Carsten -- Dr. Carsten Otto http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/

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[arch-mirrors] Dropping plain http support on arch-mirror.wtako.net
by Saren Arterius 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

Hi. I have forced redirected all http requests to be https, therefore please remove http://arch-mirror.wtako.net from the mirrorlist. Saren

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[arch-mirrors] https enabled on arlm.tyzoid.com
by Tyler Dence 30 Jul '17

30 Jul '17

In addition to the http and rsync endpoints, https has been enabled: http://arlm.tyzoid.com/ https://arlm.tyzoid.com/ rsync://arlm.tyzoid.com/archlinux/ Let me know if any problems are experienced with this new endpoint. Thanks!

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Re: [arch-mirrors] [loli.forsale] Arch Linux Mirror Question
by Saren Arterius 25 Jul '17

25 Jul '17

Well, I didn't own the domain too, but do you think is it political correctness all over the place? We removed a domain from mirror list because somebody claimed it's offensive. To justify it, we were protecting Arch Linux's reputation out of professionalism. Isn't it literally self censorship? What if somebody claimed wtako.net offensive because of some cosmetic reasons? What will Florian do then? Remove it from mirror list because it offended nobody but him? This incident is nothing but the most stupid thing I have seen in Arch community yet. Saren On 西元2017年07月25日 15:23, Philip Stark wrote: > I didn’t make any decisions. > > Also I didn’t say the domain was not a joke. I even smiled. I am personally not offended by it (even though I have to say, I checked the content of the domain with a small amount of trepidation. It’s the internet after all…) > > All I said is that it is a perfectly valid decision to disaffiliate because it sounds either like a joke in bad taste (which it is, and that’s fine) or like something genuinely illegal. Corporate IT usually does not investigate for long, they just come gunning for you. > > Also, it wasn’t banned, it was simply removed from the official mirror list. It can still host all the arch linux materials it wants. Nothing changed that respect. > > Your answers are a little black and white, don’t you think? This is JUST about protecting reputation. And Florian seems to value the reputation of a more corporate and conservative crowd more than the one of the 4chan/reddit crowd (or wherever one makes jokes like that nowadays. I am a little out of touch.) > > I am not officially affiliated with Arch Linux, btw. Just to make this clear. > > > Cheers, > Philip Stark > >> On 25 Jul 2017, at 09:13, Saren Arterius <saren(a)wtako.net> wrote: >> >> Agreed. This domain is definitely linked to supporting patriarchy, >> pedophilia, human trafficking and slavery, and that's why this domain is >> no joke and must be banned for hosting Arch linux repo, which is 10/10 >> understandable. I support all of your decisions. /s >> >> >> On 西元2017年07月25日 15:06, Philip Stark wrote: >>> Hi Saren, >>> >>> Unfortunately the joke domain is lacking it’s “just-kidding" emoticon. We live in a world where appearances matter, as much as we all wish it wouldn’t. Many people not steeped in “lulz”-culture would simply not get the joke. And that is a problem, imho. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Philip Stark >>> >>> >>>> On 25 Jul 2017, at 09:00, Saren Arterius <saren(a)wtako.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Oh wow, did we just ban a mirror because of its joke domain? That's >>>> 10/10 professionalism indeed. >>>> >>>> On 西元2017年07月25日 14:53, Philip Stark wrote: >>>>> Hi Midov, Alucard, >>>>> >>>>>> On 25 Jul 2017, at 08:11, Midov <midov(a)midov.pl> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Dear Florian Pritz, >>>>> <snip> >>>>>>> What does it take to remove all forms of free speech, before it >>>>>>> doesn't >>>>>>> matter to anyone at all? >>>>>>> >>>>> This is not about free speech. >>>>> >>>>> As far as I understand, you are free to host Arch Linux material on your server under whatever domain you feel like. That is as far as free speech goes. The decision by the Arch Linux project (through Florian) was to stop listing your server, which would imply a certain affiliation. That is not about free speech, it’s a decision by a non-governmental entity. They have the right (legally and ethically, imho) to decide whom to affiliate with, irrelevant of the reason. >>>>> >>>>> This is a move that was borne from a concern for the reputation of the project. You seem to value “teh lulz” high, which is your right. Florian valued the reputation of the project higher than your right to have a goofily named mirror on the official list. I agree. And I’m not sure why that is such a problem. >>>>> >>>>> <snip> >>>>>>> Could you keep a list of alternative domains not deemed safe for >>>>>>> work, but >>>>>>> still mirrors for Arch? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Imagine if others were to host Arch, let's say on an OpenNic domain, >>>>>>> or an >>>>>>> onion address, would those get deemed Not Safe Work too? >>>>>>> Maybe I'll register CIAloves2.divideandconqu.er to make it more >>>>>>> palatable. >>>>>>> >>>>> How edgy... >>>>> >>>>>> I for one would download all my shit from cute loli mirror. >>>>>> Triggered feminists have no place on the free internet, let them go >>>>>> back to their censored safe spaces. >>>>>> Thanks for your attention. >>>>> Then go on, add this mirror to your config. Nobody asks you or them not to use this domain. >>>>> >>>>> This is not about feminism, free speech or safe spaces. This is about protecting the reputation of a project trying to project a certain amount of professionalism. And to be honest, I feel a little tired of these discussions trying to use free speech as a shield to waste everyone’s time just because they feel their little jokes deserve wide-spread attention. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> TL;DR: A non-governmental project has every right to associate with whatever entities they want. Florian felt that loli.forsale is a domain that does not represent the professionalism they would like to portray. Thus it was removed. >>>>> >>>>> I will answer replies, but I will no longer post about this topic to this list, as I feel it would be spam. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Philip Stark >>>> <0x0465A111.asc> >> <0x0465A111.asc>

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