New AU CVSup Mirror Looking for CVSUP4.US Contact

[John Marshall-2]

As Edwin mentioned in a recent post, we have a new CVSup mirror on the
Australian East Coast (CVSUP3.AU). Following the recommendation in the
Hubs Article, we are synchronizing with an upstream server hourly (at
hh:18).

The upstream (non-master) mirror which appears to be the best option for
us is CVSUP4.US (the ISC mirror on the USA West Coast), so that is what
we have been using. Without having made any prior arrangement for access
to that server, our connections are being rejected typically 4 to 6
times per day.  These synchronization failures tend to clump together
during our evening, resulting in anything up to a 7-hour lapse in
syncronization. Here is an example of a 6-hour lapse:

  ----------------
  ozsrv01> zgrep -A1 -B1 ^Rej /var/log/cvsup.log.3.gz
  Connected to cvsup4.us.freebsd.org
  Rejected by server: Access limit exceeded; try again later
  CVSup update ends at 2008-07-17 02:18:03
  --
  Connected to cvsup4.us.freebsd.org
  Rejected by server: Access limit exceeded; try again later
  CVSup update ends at 2008-07-17 18:18:03
  --
  Connected to cvsup4.us.freebsd.org
  Rejected by server: Access limit exceeded; try again later
  CVSup update ends at 2008-07-17 19:18:03
  --
  Connected to cvsup4.us.freebsd.org
  Rejected by server: Access limit exceeded; try again later
  CVSup update ends at 2008-07-17 20:18:04
  --
  Connected to cvsup4.us.freebsd.org
  Rejected by server: Access limit exceeded; try again later
  CVSup update ends at 2008-07-17 21:18:02
  --
  Connected to cvsup4.us.freebsd.org
  Rejected by server: Access limit exceeded; try again later
  CVSup update ends at 2008-07-17 22:18:03
  ----------------

An application for CVSUP-MASTER access was lodged by hostmaster@au on
July 3. Is the most appropriate action to continue sit tight and wait to
hear back on that, or to arrange access to CVSUP4.US or some other
upstream server? If we could arrange access to CVSUP4, that would be
greatly appreciated.

Thank you for any advice and assistance.


--
John Marshall

[Peter Losher]

John Marshall wrote:

> The upstream (non-master) mirror which appears to be the best option for
> us is CVSUP4.US (the ISC mirror on the USA West Coast), so that is what
> we have been using. Without having made any prior arrangement for access
> to that server, our connections are being rejected typically 4 to 6
> times per day.  These synchronization failures tend to clump together
> during our evening, resulting in anything up to a 7-hour lapse in
> syncronization. Here is an example of a 6-hour lapse:

Yeah, it seems a lot of slots have been taken up by a Turkish resort
chain (Joy Hotels) where each one of the resort behind their own Turk
Telecom DSL line/IP is banging cvsup4.us for a constant CVsup update
every couple of minutes. (seems they should be running their own private
CVSup mirror or use cvsup.tr.freebsd.org)

-=-
Jul 21 09:00:20 cvsup4.us cvsupd[50801]: +99875
root@... (nashira-f.joyhotels.com)
[SNAP_16_1h/17.0]
Jul 21 09:00:21 cvsup4.us cvsupd[50810]: +99877
root@... (hydros-f.joyhotels.com)
[SNAP_16_1h/17.0]
Jul 21 09:00:37 cvsup4.us cvsupd[50988]: +99879
root@... (kresort-f.joyhotels.com)
[SNAP_16_1h/17.0]
Jul 21 09:02:42 cvsup4.us cvsupd[52208]: +99904
root@... (pegaincekum-f.joyhotels.com)
[SNAP_16_1h/17.0]
Jul 21 09:02:46 cvsup4.us cvsupd[52224]: +99905
root@... (mabiche-f.joyhotels.com)
[SNAP_16_1h/17.0]
Jul 21 09:04:21 cvsup4.us cvsupd[53150]: +99919
root@... (hydros-f.joyhotels.com)
[SNAP_16_1h/17.0]
Jul 21 09:04:37 cvsup4.us cvsupd[53227]: +99920
root@... (kresort-f.joyhotels.com)
[SNAP_16_1h/17.0]
-=-

In any case, I already have opened up some more slots to see if this
constant banging against cvsup4.us is just queued requests that have
been deferred. (which should also help you)  If not, I will have to
track their admins down (or if that doesn't work - rate limit them) :S

> An application for CVSUP-MASTER access was lodged by hostmaster@au on
> July 3. Is the most appropriate action to continue sit tight and wait to
> hear back on that, or to arrange access to CVSUP4.US or some other
> upstream server? If we could arrange access to CVSUP4, that would be
> greatly appreciated.

You should really get access to cvsup-master since it only accepts
connections from other top-tier mirrors (and since it's hosted at
Yahoo!, your network path to it should be similar to ISC/cvsup4.us)

That being said, so let me know if you still have issues accessing
cvsup4.us.

Best Wishes - Peter
--
Peter_Losher@... | ISC | OpenPGP 0xE8048D08 | "The bits must flow"

[Peter Losher]

Peter Losher wrote:

> John Marshall wrote:
>
>> The upstream (non-master) mirror which appears to be the best option for
>> us is CVSUP4.US (the ISC mirror on the USA West Coast), so that is what
>> we have been using. Without having made any prior arrangement for access
>> to that server, our connections are being rejected typically 4 to 6
>> times per day.  These synchronization failures tend to clump together
>> during our evening, resulting in anything up to a 7-hour lapse in
>> syncronization. Here is an example of a 6-hour lapse:
>
> Yeah, it seems a lot of slots have been taken up by a Turkish resort
> chain (Joy Hotels) where each one of the resort behind their own Turk
> Telecom DSL line/IP is banging cvsup4.us for a constant CVsup update
> every couple of minutes. (seems they should be running their own private
> CVSup mirror or use cvsup.tr.freebsd.org)

If you want a even starker number:

% grep joyhotels /var/log/cvsupd.log | wc -l
     983

Grumbl...

-Peter
--
Peter_Losher@... | ISC | OpenPGP 0xE8048D08 | "The bits must flow"

[John Marshall-2]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, 19:23 -0700, Peter Losher wrote:
> John Marshall wrote:
>
> In any case, I already have opened up some more slots to see if this
> constant banging against cvsup4.us is just queued requests that have
> been deferred. (which should also help you)  If not, I will have to
> track their admins down (or if that doesn't work - rate limit them) :S

Thanks for that. Hopefully the extra slots will improve the situation.

> > An application for CVSUP-MASTER access was lodged by hostmaster@au on
> > July 3. Is the most appropriate action to continue sit tight and wait to
> > hear back on that, or to arrange access to CVSUP4.US or some other
> > upstream server? If we could arrange access to CVSUP4, that would be
> > greatly appreciated.
>
> You should really get access to cvsup-master since it only accepts
> connections from other top-tier mirrors (and since it's hosted at
> Yahoo!, your network path to it should be similar to ISC/cvsup4.us)

OK. We'll just wait for an answer on the cvsup-master application. I had
already noticed that cvsup-master, like cvsup4.us, is perfectly situated
for access from the Australian East Coast:

  cvsup-master 180ms (10 hops)
  cvsup4.us    180ms (9 hops)

> That being said, so let me know if you still have issues accessing
> cvsup4.us.

OK. Thanks for looking at this for us.


--
John Marshall

[Ken Smith-3]

On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 12:55 +1000, John Marshall wrote:
> OK. We'll just wait for an answer on the cvsup-master application. I had
> already noticed that cvsup-master, like cvsup4.us, is perfectly situated
> for access from the Australian East Coast:
>
>   cvsup-master 180ms (10 hops)
>   cvsup4.us    180ms (9 hops)

Yeah, sorry for the delay getting back to you about the cvsup-master
access.  Hopefully that's all set.

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[John Marshall-2]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, 15:00 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> Yeah, sorry for the delay getting back to you about the cvsup-master
> access.  Hopefully that's all set.

Thanks Ken,

All looks fine.

  ----------------
  CVSup update begins at 2008-07-24 09:18:03
  Updating from cvsup-master.freebsd.org
  Connected to cvsup-master.freebsd.org
  .
  .
  .
  Finished successfully
  CVSup update ends at 2008-07-24 09:19:58
  ----------------

Thank you very much.

--
John Marshall