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From: Tobias Klausmann <klausman@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] Gentoo rsync mirror alert RFC
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:13:19
Message-Id: 20060214231252.GA31306@eric.schwarzvogel.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] Gentoo rsync mirror alert RFC by Jeffrey Forman
1 Hi!
2
3 On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Jeffrey Forman wrote:
4
5 > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 23:45 +0100, Michael Renner wrote:
6 > > Send it to the mirror contact. The mailing list should be kept
7 > > "noise-free". I (and most likely other mirror-admins too) don't care
8 > > when mirror $foo is broken.
9 >
10 > That's one side of the response that I can totally relate to. We'll see
11 > how the rest of the admins think about this, and I'll go with majority
12 > rules.
13 >
14 > /me scribbles down Michael as a "dont bother me unless I screw up" ;)
15
16 Same here. If you bother the list with it, people will start
17 throwing it away without looking at it - purpose defeated.
18
19 > > Send it when the mirror goes "bad" and from that one once per day. As
20 > > soon as the server gets "ok" again, reset the one-day-delay, so that
21 > > "flapping" problems can get spotted.
22 >
23 > The flapping is something I thought about, but the hamsters in my head
24 > kept burning out when I tried to think of a simple solution to keeping
25 > track of it. Then again I hope with this script, I will be much more
26 > on-top of removing mirrors that have gone by the way side.
27
28 The flap detection is non trivial, surely. You might want to look
29 at the Nagios docs as for how flapping is defined there.
30
31 Regards,
32 Tobias
33
34 --
35 You don't need eyes to see, you need vision.
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Re: [gentoo-mirrors] Gentoo rsync mirror alert RFC Dirk Raeder <dirk.raeder@×××.net>