Monitor mirror status via 'mirmon'?

[George Danchev]

On Wednesday 21 September 2005 19:26, John Polstra wrote:
> On 14-Sep-2005 Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > In an out-of-band discussion related to ftp/www/cvsup.bg.FreeBSD.org,
> > George Danchev mentioned 'mirmon', a utility for monitoring the
> > 'up-to-dateness' of project mirror sites based on the timestamp of
> > a file touched hourly on the master site:
> >
> > http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/henkp/mirmon/
> >
> > Would it be a good idea to run something like that for the FreeBSD
> > mirrors?  I think a file with a timestamp updated hourly would not
> > put too much stress on the mirrors.
>
> Sorry to weigh in so late on this.  I just got home from vacation.
> It sounds like a good idea to me.  The extra load on the mirrors
> would be negligible.

FWIW I think it should be hosted official like mirmon.FreeBSD.org (or 
mirrorstatus?), whilst mirrorlist.FreeBSD.org should stay as is. Another 
example is http://mirrors.freesbie.org/

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