Removing an old mirror server from https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/

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Hi

I’m a sysadmin at UCT. There was a mirror here, ftp.leg.uct.ac.za, that died several years ago. Now when updating we get:

http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/linux/fedora-epel/9/Everything/x86_64/Packages/j/java-latest-openjdk-26.0.0.0.32-0.0.1.ea.el9.x86_64.rpm [Connection timed out after 30000 milliseconds]

As it appears that this is still listed in the mirror sites:

<url protocol="http" type="http" location="ZA" preference="100" mm0:private="True">http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/linux/fedora-epel/9/Everything/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml</url>

This is on the fedora list of mirrors, hence no amount of dnf clean all \ make cache etc will fix this.

I would have thought that this would have been scrubbed automatically, however as it’s still there, what is the process for getting it removed.

regards
Andrew

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So, the mirror is out of date/not responding, so it was removed from all
the lists that normal users get.

However, the mirror site (
https://mirrormanager.fedoraproject.org/host/675 ) lists 2 network
blocks as ‘site-local’. That means that any requests from those networks
will have mirrormanager return this mirror as top preference.
That is to allow sites running mirrors to serve all their local networks
from their mirror instead of going out to others.

So, just unlucky there. ;(

Anyhow, I have marked it inactive entirely, and I think that should stop
offering you it as a mirror now. Give it an hour or so to sync out and
then it should stop pointing there.

If it doesn’t let me know…

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This has fixed the problem and we’re no longer seeing that mirror. Many thanks.