Hi. I created a new Gentoo source mirror in Japan. Server name: ftp://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENTOO Server IP: 133.11.205.121 Mirror Admin: Mamoru KOMACHI Mirror Admin E-mail: <usata@gentoo.org> The server is Sun Blade 1000 with 4GB of RAM and its bandwidth is 400Mbit. Maxium connection is limited to 300. It syncs with ftp.ussg.indiana.edu every four hours starting at 0:00 UTC. P.S. I was already added to gentoo-mirrors list since this server now serves as rsync4.jp.gentoo.org ;-)
I've sent you some instructions on accessing our private distfiles mirror. Please update your scripts to point to this mirror. After I verify a couple of syncs, I'll update our mirrors page with your server info. Thanks.
I updated ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp to point to the private mirror server. Thanks for the instruction.
Can you verify that syncing is happening every 4 hours, starting at 00:00 local time? For the few checks that I've made, the syncs have been around 5 hours old. After I checked, I don't know when the actual syncs occurred. The times below are in date -uR format. Timestamp Time checked 02 Sep 17:55 23:07 02 Sep 21:55 03 Sep 02:59 03 Sep 17:55 23:05
Oh, I had set the job to update starting at 00:00 UTC, so I reset it to sync starting at local time(JST) and it seems it is syncing every four hours. > date Thu Sep 4 21:43:18 JST 2003 > date -u Thu Sep 4 12:43:20 GMT 2003 > ls 20030904@07:00:00GMT 20030904@11:00:00GMT > cat /work/ftp/GENTOO/distfiles/timestamp.chk Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:55:00 +0000 But shouldn't the sync start at 00:00 UTC instead of local time(JST)? I have no idea why it synced by 5 hours late (it couldn't have been late by 5 hours since I set it sync every 4 hours??).
I didn't see when the syncs occurred, so I don't know when they happened. They weren't 5 hours late, just that they hadn't sync'd in 5 hours. Since they should be within 4 hours, they were only 1 hour late at the time (plus time until when they did sync). As for UTC/local time, syncing on a local time schedule alleviates the load to mirror so not all mirrors are syncing at the same time. I also misunderstood some mirror information on our end, so I may have been checking inaccurately. I just checked your server, and it was OK. Now that I know what I'm doing, a few more checks, and I'll have the mirrors page updated to include this server.
I've done some more monitoring, and the server hasn't had any problems. I'm ready to add it to the mirrors page. Is there a name (company, organization, school, etc.) that you'd like is to refer to?
Yeah, I'd like to have it as ``University of Tokyo'' ftp mirror server. Thank you very much for your all trouble.
The mirrors page has been updated and the changes should be visible in about 30 minutes or so. Thanks for supporting Gentoo.
