Australian Mirror Offline Since 21.7.1

[benyamin]

Hi All,

I noticed upon release of 21.7.2 that the Australian mirror (at mirror.as24220.net) had not updated from 21.7.1. IIRC, it was the same day the 21.7.2_1 hotfix was released. I had thought that perhaps delayed propagation of the patch might be the cause so I left it alone. I run a daily cron job to check and apply any updates so I presumed it would update in due course.

However, when I checked yesterday, I noticed I was still stuck on 21.7.1. 

Upon investigation it became evident that the AU mirror was offline. I changed to Amsterdam and it updated without issue.

I suspect this is the root cause of the problem here too.

Is someone able to check in with the maintainer? I noticed fichtner sorted it once before as detailed here.

I guess this highlights a potential security issue if one is not performing regular audits. 

This could be dealt with programmatically, e.g. sending an email alert if a mirror is found to be down, providing for configuration of a secondary mirror for use on primary mirror failure, updating mirror statistics and alerting mirror maintainers, etc.

I would look into this myself, but find myself short of time at the moment. I also don't have access to back end systems and channels which would be necessary for some of the above.

Thanks,
Ben

[AdSchellevis]

Hi Ben,

I've send the owner an email, eventually we probably will cleanup the list inside OPNsense a bit more, on https://opnsense.org/download/ we mention all that are available, only a few will be shipped in the default list to avoid maintenance issues on our end.

Best regards,

Ad

[benyamin]

Thanks Ad.

I did go back and check the mirrors list.

It was then that I noticed the Cloudflare CDN link at the bottom of the page (mirror.dns-root.de).

It pings at ~20ms so I've gone with that for now.

Cheers,
Ben

[benyamin]

I note the mirror is still down after almost two weeks.

Ad, did you get a reply from the owner?

[AdSchellevis]

Hi Ben,

I didn't receive a response, so I've removed it from the list.
Thanks for the ping, I kind of forgot about it to be honest.

Best regards,

Ad

[Greelan]

What are the requirements for hosting a mirror, out of interest?

[AdSchellevis]

Not a lot, a periodic sync should normally be enough, although we don't add these in our product anymore due to the high maintenance load (quite some mirrors have vanished at some point in time).

[Greelan]

Got it, so you are not looking for a replacement in this case

[benyamin]

It be hard to beat Cloudflare CDN methinks...