Half of the UK mirrors are failing to update/sync

RedXanadu · 2021-01-25 19:55:03

Hi all,

I hope this is the correct place to post this…

About half of the UK mirrors have failed to update/sync since 20 January:

lastsync 2021-01-20 01:38 11
lastupdate 2021-01-19 23:50 11

Affected mirrors:

https://mirrors.melbourne.co.uk/archlinux/
https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.archlinux.org/
https://mirrors.gethosted.online/archlinux/
https://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/sites/archlinux.org/
http://archlinux.mirrors.uk2.net/

Forgive my ignorance of the Pacman/mirror ecosystem, but has something upstream failed in order to cause this? Presumably, mirrors must have an upstream source?

Thanks,
Andrew

Last edited by RedXanadu (2021-01-25 19:55:43)

Trilby · 2021-01-25 20:05:41

Where are you getting that list? None of those are even included in the current mirrorlist.

EDIT: nevermind - perhaps they are. I generate a UK list once and none of those were on it, but when I switched a setting, some were. In any case, any reasonable mirror selection process would filter those out. How do you generate your mirrorlist?

Last edited by Trilby (2021-01-25 20:08:25)

RedXanadu · 2021-01-25 20:32:55

Trilby wrote:

How do you generate your mirrorlist?

When I see a new mirrorlist.pacnew appear (I assume provided by the pacman-mirrorlist package), I delete the non-UK mirrors (I'm UK based) and then run rankmirrors.

The top of my current mirrorlist looks like the following, with the top two mirrors commented out as they're not updating:

# Server list generated by rankmirrors on 2021-01-13
##
## Arch Linux repository mirrorlist
## Generated on 2021-01-10
##
## United Kingdom
#Server = http://mirrors.melbourne.co.uk/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror.netweaver.uk/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirrors.gethosted.online/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
...

Last edited by RedXanadu (2021-01-25 20:35:01)

nd925a · 2021-01-25 20:53:10

It looks like a bunch of UK mirrors are out of sync right now by around 5 days.

Check out this page:
https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status/

philo · 2021-01-26 10:41:06

You do not need to use UK mirrors because you live in the UK.

Why not install Reflector and have better options:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reflector

d_fajardo · 2021-01-26 13:19:07

I'm in the UK and there's no problem with my mirrorlist.

I delete the non-UK mirrors (I'm UK based) and then run rankmirrors.

Perhaps it's rankmirrors that's the problem?

I don't do anything fancy. I just comment out the UK list and put it on top of my mirrorlist. Last pacman update was January 10:

##
## Arch Linux repository mirrorlist
## Generated on 2021-01-10
##

## United Kingdom
Server = http://archlinux.uk.mirror.allworldit.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://archlinux.uk.mirror.allworldit.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirrors.gethosted.online/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirrors.gethosted.online/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirrors.manchester.m247.com/arch-linux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirrors.melbourne.co.uk/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirrors.melbourne.co.uk/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror.netweaver.uk/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Trilby · 2021-01-26 15:18:27

Rankmirrors does not use any metric of the mirror status, it simply ranks by initial connection latency. This does little other than check that the server is still reachable.

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Half of the UK mirrors are failing to update/sync

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