Bug 59884 – UK Mirror Service has moved to mirrorservice.org

• Product: Websites
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Adam Sampson 2004-08-09 11:21:38 UTC]

We've changed domain name, so the entry on the mirrors list (and presumably any references to us in portage too) needs updating. Here's the message we've been sending out to source sites:

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Dear UK Mirror Service source site,

We're sending you this message because we currently mirror some of your
content, and any links you have to us will need updating. If you don't
currently list us as a mirror, please feel free to do so!

We used to operate from mirror.ac.uk; this has now been handed over to
Eduserv Internet, who will be running a new (unrelated) service from
there. We're pleased to announce that we will be continuing to provide
the UK Mirror Service from mirrorservice.org. If you currently have
download links pointing to a mirror of your site at mirror.ac.uk (or
hensa.ac.uk, the domain we used prior to 1999), please update these to
point at mirrorservice.org instead.  For example, if your old URLs were:

  http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.example.com/pub/example/
  ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.example.com/pub/example/
  rsync://rsync.mirror.ac.uk/ftp.example.com/pub/example/

then they will now need to be:

  http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.example.com/pub/example/
  ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.example.com/pub/example/
  rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/ftp.example.com/pub/example/
    (note that there's no /sites/ in the rsync URL)

Your content will be available by default using all three protocols. (If
you don't want this, let us know.) Our web interface allows users to
browse inside archives and ISO images.

If you want a symlink in /pub/ pointing to your content so
ftp.mirrorservice.org can be used in an FTP round-robin, please let us
know. (These are already in place for some sites.) If you have DNS
CNAMEs pointing at mirror.ac.uk addresses, these will also need to be
updated to point to the corresponding mirrorservice.org addresses.

The mirrorservice.org hosts are located at the University of Kent in
Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom, which has a 155Mbit link to the rest
of the world (due to be upgraded to 1Gbit in the near future).

Mirroring is performed as before from the IPv4 addresses
212.219.56.140 (compton.mirrorservice.org) and 212.219.56.132
(palomar.mirrorservice.org).

Please contact us at <[e-mail]> if you have any
questions.

Thanks,
The UK Mirror Service team
<[e-mail]>
<http://www.mirrorservice.org/>


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the mirrors list.
2. Click on the "UK Mirror Service" entry.


Actual Results:  
I get a 404 from Eduserv, since they're not mirroring Gentoo.

Expected Results:  
I get the right page from UKMS.

[Comment 1 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2005-05-15 15:48:40 UTC]

Fixed the Rsync URL, not sure why this bug hadnt been checked over and closed. Apologies for the late response on this.

Regards,
Jeffrey