Perform a network sanity check before running the mirror prober

Bug #82647 reported by Guilherme Salgado
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Launchpad itself
Triaged
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Bug Description

Kiko suggested that we do a sanity check of our network at the beginning of the mirr-prober script, skipping the actual probe if the sanity check fails.

That way we would avoid sending failure notifications to mirror admins when the problem is on our side.

Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → salgado
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Guilherme Salgado (salgado) wrote :

One way of doing this would be to issue a few requests on some host that is known to have a near-100% uptime and only start the actual probing if the requests succeed.

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Karl Tilbury (karl-tilbury) wrote :

I think this is a good idea.

I suggest three hosts in this order:

http://releases.ubuntu.com
(if this fails the LAN is having problems)
 http://gb.releases.ubuntu.com
(if this fails, a very near to Canonical DC network is down)
http://se.releases.ubuntu.com
(if this fails, internet connection is unreliable)

Changed in launchpad:
importance: Medium → Low
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Guilherme Salgado (salgado) wrote : Unassign myself from untargetted bugs

 assignee nobody
 subscribe

Changed in launchpad:
assignee: salgado → nobody
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
affects: launchpad-foundations → launchpad-registry
Jonathan Davies (jpds)
tags: added: mirror
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