Check for 24.10 is way tooooo fast

[Haw Loeung]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 06:22:17PM +0200, Quantum Mirror wrote:
> The situation is getting funnier.
> 
> Today I looked at the status of the archive mirrors and found this:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors
> 
> > RWTH Aachen University http ftp rsync 20 Gbps Up to date
> 
> which is very funny, because the server has not updated the ubuntu archive
> directory for almost a month now - as announced by the mirror administrator
> in advance - and the trace file status on the mentioned server is 2024.09.21
> .
> 
> How reliable is this whole monitoring system? And how many users will be
> redirected to package servers that are not up to date?
> 
> As a side note, I also suspended the synchronization of ubuntu cd's at the
> time in solidarity with Aachen University.
> 

We, Canonical IS, aren't responsible for the mirror prober. The
frequency is increased when it's close to a release, in this case,
Oracular, then later reduced back (I think from 15 mins to hours).

The mirror prober is part of the Launchpad project, which is why we
redirect people to file bugs there. I don't think any of the Launchpad
developers lurk here, they may on the Ubuntu Discourse but still,
filing a bug against the project is the best path forward.

| https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bugs?field.tag=mirror

The code is also open source, which you can view to get a better
understanding of how it works:

| https://git.launchpad.net/launchpad/tree/cronscripts/distributionmirror-prober.py
| https://git.launchpad.net/launchpad/tree/lib/lp/registry/scripts/distributionmirror_prober.py


Regards,

Haw
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