A quick look at the yum mirrorlists

[Nicholas Miell]

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 13:50 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> After getting sick of yum trying to parse 404 Not Found error HTML as
> repomd.xml (btw, Seth: yum will try to parse 404 Not Found error HTML as
> repomd.xml), I used a quick mirror validation script of my own creation
> (see below) on the official FC 4 mirror lists and determined that a lot
> of the mirrors in that list really shouldn't be there.
> 

Missed a few, mostly because they're 404 but returning 302 (now I see
what Seth was complaining about).

http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/ppc/os/
	HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found (but replies with HTTP/1.1 302 Found)
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/x86_64/os/
	HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found (but replies with HTTP/1.1 302 Found)
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/ppc/
	HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found (but replies with HTTP/1.1 302 Found)
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/x86_64/
	HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found (but replies with HTTP/1.1 302 Found)
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/ppc/
	HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found (but replies with HTTP/1.1 302 Found)
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/x86_64/
	HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found (but replies with HTTP/1.1 302 Found)

This makes me wonder if the IPv6 versions even work. I can't test that,
but it would be nice if somebody with IPv6 connectivity would take a
look.

-- 
Nicholas Miell <nmiell at comcast.net>