175448 - Creation time of folders changes

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org :: FTP: Mirrors, task)

Description

[Matthias Bockelkamp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

The displayed creation time of the subfolders changes sometimes (seems to be
randomly, but the tens of minutes seem to be affected mostly), e.g. if the site
sais "10/17/2002 01:24 Verzeichnis <A
HREF="/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.0.1/">" then maybe an hour later it sais
"10/17/2002 01:04 Verzeichnis <A HREF="/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.0.1/">"

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases and save the page.
2. Wait for an hour.
3. Open ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases and save the page.
4. Compare the saved pages.
Actual Results:  
The folder times changed while all other info is unchanged.


Expected Results:  
All info should be unchanged.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I don't know a way to fix that...  there's actually 4 different servers, I
believe, that are behind a round-robin DNS, so you get a different server at
random every time you hit it.  It's kinda hard to make the upload happen on all
of the servers at the same time... :)

Comment 2

[Matthias Bockelkamp]

Maybe the servers could add a comment containing their name, ID or whatever can
be used to see the difference in the output of the LIST command.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

The ftp mirror system has completely changed since this bug was filed.  I can't
imagine the change having fixed this though, and I don't know if it's worth fixing.

Comment 4

[Scott Kveton]

We're not using FTP anymore for the main rotation.  Thank god.