On 2024-02-28, Pontus Stenetorp <pon...@stenetorp.se> wrote: > On Tue 27 Feb 2024, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2024-02-27, Stuart Henderson <stu.li...@spacehopper.org> wrote: >> > On 2024-02-27, Peter Kay <syllops...@syllopsium.co.uk> wrote: >> >> >> >> Just been to upgrade a rather old system I keep OpenBSD on for fun all >> >> the way up from 6.9, and found bytemark no longer seem to be hosting >> >> any OpenBSD content. >> > >> > That's why they have been removed from the mirrors list since 2022. >> >> Oh hmm, seems I readded them as they had started working again, I'll drop >> them again. > > Since it has crossed my mind that scripting together some sort of "mirror > health" tool would be a fairly easy (yet probably valuable) contribution to > the community, is there currently anything akin to that in use by you or > others when maintaining the mirrors list? A few searches of mine turned up > empty, but it could equally well be that my search skills were lacking.
No need for another tool, we have mirmon and mirrorcheck.sh. The problem is finding time to review results of checks, and making decisions about what to include in ftp.html (for parts of the world with low connectivity, a mirror which is slightly behind on snapshots can still be very useful). -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
