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lord_rel

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Registered: 2007-04-04

Posts: 36

mirrors synchronism problem

the local mirror for my area has been having trouble synchronizing with the official server, which prompted me to look for the root reason of the problem.

it seems that unlike the comment on hosting an official mirror, mirrors have been synchronizing on the hour instead of at a random time, that has lead to mirrors with backbones that connect to the main server syncing but others failing to sync and getting "max connects" errors.

would it be possible to send emails to mirror hosts/admins and make a frontpage posts requesting them an addition of a fuzziness factor to syncs to make life easier and make the official mirror wiki page more visible with its comment to add that time randomness and perhaps an example of adding that factor.

thank you

i love archlinux

Lord REL ( a minor mirror user )