On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 06:37:37AM -0500, Pranav Kant wrote:

Sir/Madam, I am student studying in NIT Hamirpur and I want to mention the instability of the above mentioned mirror on your public active mirrors. The name of GLUG - NIT Hamirpur fluctuates many times a day but on our side it always keeps working on both http and ftp if we mention in manually on our yum.repos.d. Since there are not many clients here who uses manual configuration and almost all of them uses your mirror list to get the best possible mirror, so every time they update they get mirror server other than ours, hence giving them lesser speed of updating and downloading new releases. I request you to please check what is blocking our mirror server to be on the public active mirror server majority of the time.

I'm not sure how often this mirror syncs. It appears they are very selective in which directories they mirror, such that parts of Fedora 17 are present, and some updates, but not all of them. MirrorManager will not send traffic to mirrors it thinks are not up-to-date, or that don't have the content.

There's also a really weird mirror host name listed there, which redirects to a spammy search site. That host is the only one that has a netblock associated with it, so traffic would automatically be sent there. At some point someone noticed this and disabled the mirror, so it's never served by MM, but it's just very odd.

Further I would like to mention that our http link is also working for udpates and downloads, but only ftp link is mentioned out there on the public server list. Http link gives more speed so I would like to request to add http link also to your list so that users can take advantage of its high speed.

I've added the http link now, thanks.