Re: Out-of-date mirrors
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 02:06:54PM -0200, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> I think one of the requeriments (sp?) to be an official
> (www.<country>.debian.org) Debian www mirror should be to have up-to-date
> pages. It's OK that the pages might be a few days (even a week) out of date,
> but a mirror last updated in September (www.br.debian.org/debian.usp.br --
> check the BTS timestamp page and the list archives index) is not a good thing.
>
If someone wants to organize the mirrors, feel free to contact me.
You need to be a Debian developer.
> Inserting a hidden timestamp page and using a script to check if the mirrors
> are at most 8 days out of date (and not letting out-of-date mirrors be listed
> as official, much less having a .debian.org DNS alias) would do the trick.
>
Check out http://www.<country>.debian.org/mirror/timestamps . Note that
some mirrors will not have directory indexing turned on. If that is
the case, http://www.<country>.debian.org/mirror/timestamps/master.debian.org
should at least give you an idea of how up to date it is (that is not
authoritative since the mirror update may not have finished).
--
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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