mirrors that don't work

[Tony Nelson]

At 12:02 PM +0930 7/18/06, Tim wrote:
>How does one report mirrors that are useless?  I've had a quick prowl
>around the Fedora and Bugzilla sites, but I can't see anything relevant.
>
><http://planetmirror.com/> is offered as a mirror, but I've never seen
>it work.  It always returns one of their HTML click-through pages for
>any file request, making it utterly useless for YUM (you don't get the
>repomd.xml but one of their pages, first, the same for any RPM you'd
>like to try and get, and so on).
>
>For instance, YUM tries to get:
><http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml>
>But you get the click-through page (that you'll see if you browse to
>that link), with a "you are about to download /some file/" message,
>that'll start in a moment, rubbish.  And, ironically enough, it tries to
>set a cookie called "saboteur.planetmirror.com".
>
>I'd like to see this waste of time removed from the mirror list.

I've reported two such issues to "Fedora Infrastructure" "update system".
One was accepted, the other was pushed onto "website".  I haven't seen any
activity on either bug in the past couple of months, so don't get your
hopes up.
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