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GerBra

Forum Fellow

From: Bingen/Germany

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 207

Mirror list status site

Hi,

if you want to know the status of a mirror you could look here:
http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html

Since a few weeks i try to monitor and check our mirrors, report those with common problems on bugtracker and try to do researching what problems they have.
The HTML output is not finished, i'm working on it.

Cause the most international arch users read here i make this public announce ;-)

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Mirror list status site

This is great!  Thanks! 

finferflu

Forum Fellow

From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2007-06-21

Posts: 1,899

Website

Re: Mirror list status site

Wow! Good job!

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xdeusx

Member

Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 168

Re: Mirror list status site

not bad, this should be integrated in archlinux.org

praka123

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From: Kerala,India

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 188

Website

Re: Mirror list status site

nice!

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Mirror list status site

Hi,

if you want to know the status of a mirror you could look here:
http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html

Since a few weeks i try to monitor and check our mirrors, report those with common problems on bugtracker and try to do researching what problems they have.
The HTML output is not finished, i'm working on it.

Cause the most international arch users read here i make this public announce ;-)

Yes, that's amazing, your work is highly appreciated. Increasing the quality of mirrors directly increases the quality of Arch.

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tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Mirror list status site

Great work, thanks. Here's a feature request, if you're interested:
A one-mirror-per-line summary at the top of the page e.g.

Heanet                In Sync
Belnet                 Out of Sync
etc

The detail is great, but I think someone looking for a new mirror wants a quick "Yes-or-No" answer.

GerBra

Forum Fellow

From: Bingen/Germany

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 207

Re: Mirror list status site

Thanks for your comments!
And excuse my not so good english ;-)

Next week i assume the http output will get more significant and accurate. There are still "artifacts" from the versions history. First checks belongs to the difference of md5sum, mtime and size between the repo db files on ftp.archlinux.org and the mirrors. This take a long time and each run a traffic aroung 70Mb.
Then (thanks Pierre Schmitz, my "Oberboss") provide me md5sum, mtime and size data directly from the devel server.
But the main problem was: if you Devs update all or one db file the mtime diff against the mirrors
"explode" and most mirrors were flagged outdatet by false positive... So i work with offsets and work arounds...

Next step was that we could run a cron job on arch main rsync server which fill a file .lastsync with
the current UTC-Time each hour. With this i was able to do more accurate check when a mirror was last synced.
At the moment i have still a little problems with http mirrors, cause on some circumstands in the
threaded run the connection could not hold established for collecting all necassary informations.
So sometimes mirrors are flagged as having "data collection problems" although they are ok.
I work on this. And so i could study Ruby a little deeper (Hey, i LOVE Ruby ;-)

The quick info (tomk) for the impatient on top is a idea, thanks.
And so i wish to clear the other table data for better structure, maybe i could do it with css.

watsonalgas

Member

Registered: 2007-01-15

Posts: 92

Re: Mirror list status site

This could be stickied, I should think.