Bug #35730 New MySQL mirror not appearing in mirrors listing
Submitted: 1 Apr 2008 5:09 Modified: 4 Apr 2008 11:56
Reporter: Shehzaad Nakhoda Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Packaging Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version: OS:Any
Assigned to: MySQL Verification Team CPU Architecture:Any

[1 Apr 2008 5:09] Shehzaad Nakhoda
Description:
We sent an email to webmaster@mysql.com announcing our new mirror on March 2, 2008. As of April 1, 2008 (0500 GMT), our mirror is still not listed on the page:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mirrors.html.

The mirror details are:

HTTP URL: http://mirror.pakistani.org/mysql
FTP URL: ftp://mirror.pakistani.org/pub/mysql
Sponsoring organization: Lahore University of Management Sciences
Contact names: Shehzaad Nakhoda, Zartash Uzmi, Rana Asif
Contact email: mirror@pakistani.org (goes to all persons listed above).
We certify that our mirror complies with the U.S. Export Control Laws as 
detailed on the International Trade Services page at this URL: 
http://www.sun.com/sales/its/

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Following is the email thread (including resends) ("DONTSPAM" added to email addresses to protect against spammer crawlers):

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From: "Shehzaad Nakhoda" <sheDONTSPAMhzaad@cs.stanford.edu>
To: <webmDONTSPAMaster@mysql.com>
Cc: <mirrDONTSPAMor@pakistani.org>
References: <0a4601c87caf$c291b870$6401a8c0@vaio> <3134145d0803070341g65d41a9s48141df274040372@mail.gmail.com> <00ee01c89308$7d01a3a0$0100080a@vaio>
Subject: Re: New MySQL mirror in Pakistan
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:45:44 -0700
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Sender: Shehzaad Nakhoda <sheDONTSPAMhzaadn@gmail.com>

I just realized our original request did not contain the export control 
statement:

We certify that our mirror complies with the U.S. Export Control Laws as 
detailed on the International Trade Services page at this URL: 
http://www.sun.com/sales/its/

Thank you again.

--Shehzaad

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shehzaad Nakhoda" <sheDONTSPAMhzaad@cs.stanford.edu>
To: <webmaDONTSPAMster@mysql.com>
Cc: <mirroDONTSPAMr@pakistani.org>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 1:23 AM
Subject: Re: New MySQL mirror in Pakistan

> Resending.
>
> Our mirror has been operational since March 2, 2008. We still don't see 
> our mirror listed at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mirrors.html
>
> Thank you for your attention to this.
>
> thanks
> --Shehzaad
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shehzaad Nakhoda" <shehzaDONTSPAMad@cs.stanford.edu>
> To: <webmasDONTSPAMter@mysql.com>
> Cc: <mirrDONTSPAMor@pakistani.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 4:41 AM
> Subject: Fwd: New MySQL mirror in Pakistan
>
>
>> Resending.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your attention to this.
>>
>> regards
>> --Shehzaad
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Shehzaad Nakhoda <shDONTSPAMehzaad@cs.stanford.edu>
>> Date: Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:52 PM
>> Subject: New MySQL mirror in Pakistan
>> To: webmaDONTSPAMster@mysql.com
>> Cc: mirrDONTSPAMor@pakistani.org
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We have established a MySQL mirror in Pakistan. Here are the details
>> requested:
>>
>> Location: Country: Pakistan, City: Lahore
>> HTTP URL: http://mirror.pakistani.org/mysql
>> FTP URL: ftp://mirror.pakistani.org/pub/mysql
>> Sponsoring organization: Lahore University of Management Sciences
>> Contact names: Shehzaad Nakhoda, Zartash Uzmi, Rana Asif
>> Contact email: mirror@pakisDONTSPAMtani.org (goes to all persons listed above).
>>
>> PS. The total storage required currently for a mysql mirror is close to
>> 74GB, not 55 GB as stated on the page:
>> http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/how-to-mirror.html . You might want to
>> correct that. Thanks!
>>
>> regards
>> Shehzaad Nakhoda
> 

How to repeat:
View the page:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mirrors.html

No mirror in Pakistan is listed.

Suggested fix:
Please add this mirror to the listing of mysql mirrors at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mirrors.html
[4 Apr 2008 11:56] MySQL Verification Team
Thank you for the bug report. This kind of issue isn't handled by this
Bug Database System. I sent another e-mail for webmaster@.. Thanks in
advance.