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Re: git mirror at sources.redhat.com down?
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 09:50:27AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps the git-mirror maintainer (Roland?) could change the
>> relevant config part of the mirror from sources.redhat.com to
>> the official sourceware.org?
>
>Jim Meyering maintains the git mirrors. He is in the midst of an
>intercontinental relocation just now and might not be in a position to
>respond or help in the next couple of weeks.
>
>I can't find anything in the mirroring setup that relies on any particular
>hostname. You can certainly use git://sourceware.org/git/... URLs just
>fine (the git protocol doesn't know about the hostname, it's just being
>used by your client to do a DNS lookup).
>
>I am in the right groups to fiddle a few things if you identify something
>that needs it. But only Jim (or overseers) can change Jim's cron jobs.
I wasn't paying close attention to this thread but just as an FYI:
Don't use sources.redhat.com. Use sourceware.org. Red Hat has changed
the IP address for sources.redhat.com to point at a new system which,
as far as we can tell, only forwards web traffic. Other services don't
work.