Re: Connection problems with Greek mirror fosszone.csd.auth.gr

[Yavor Doganov]

Ineiev wrote:
> Hello, Yavor;

Hi, Pasha!  It's great talking to you again after all these years.  I
use the opportunity to thank you wholeheartedly for the *brilliant*
job you've been doing for our common projects during my (unsigned long
long) absence.  The square world of GNUstep sucked me in and there's
no way out, it seems.  I plan to return and will return (hopefully
soon) as your assistant.

> On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 10:13:32PM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> > I'm having constant problems with the Greek mirror
> > fosszone.csd.auth.gr

> I can't reproduce this, so I'm not sure what to do about it yet.

I guess it is only reproducible from my location and my ISP, or a
certain set of combinations of location + ISP.  JFTR, there are no
problems from another machine in my city but connected to the Internet
via a different ISP.  I am still having the same problem on my main
workstation as I type this message.

I suppose you should do nothing becase there's nothing to do.

I'm not sure if it helps analyzing the problem, but I find it
interesting that "uscan --report-status" succeeds (this option checks
the latest version on the server so there is an actual connection)
while downloading the file fails.

> Perhaps we could change the redirection logic to select from a set
> of at least N mirrors so that no user would be always directed to
> the same mirror, even if the "nearest" country has only one mirror.

I don't know the redirection logic but it sounds like this would help.

> > It seems to me that it's not possible to avoid the multiplexor;
> > direct downloads were possible once upon a time with
> > /releases-noredirect/<project>/<file> but that gives 404 now.
> 
> You can use download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/.

I didn't know this; thanks.

> > P.S.  I wanted to download the tarball from another mirror but
> >       https://fosszone.csd.auth.gr/nongnu/00_MIRRORS.html is not
> >       accessible.  Perhaps it is a good idea to move the mirror list
> >       out of the multiplexor's "mighty" hands.
> 
> One can get a list of mirrors with their status on the mirmon page,
> download.savannah.gnu.org/mirmon/savannah/.

Oh, sorry for being so stupid...  I even visited this URL before
composing my initial message.  Got it from the Hungarian mirror.

Consider the issue closed; there are easy workarounds like using
another mirror or the "noredirect" URL.