Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?

Andrew Morton
2005-09-11T22:13:14Z

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> >
> > Since about 20 hours ago, it seems the
> > linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ archive on www.kernel.org
> > alternates between at least two different HEAD commits.
>
> Are there perhaps two different front-end machines? And mirroring
> problems?

I think so. Yesterday I was wgetting files from Greg's directory on
kernel.org and kept on getting two totally different sets of files between
successive identical wget invokations.

> Does anyone else see this? "host www.kernel.org" gives me two IP
> addresses:
>
> www.kernel.org is an alias for zeus-pub.kernel.org.
> zeus-pub.kernel.org has address 204.152.191.5
> zeus-pub.kernel.org has address 204.152.191.37
>
> Is it possible that one of those computers hasn't received the latest
> changes for some reason?

Yes, I'd say that's the problem.