223671 - Files in "latest-trunk" have wrong dates

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Jerry Baker]

If you look at ftp://ftpmoz.newaol.com (to rule out mirror issues), you will
notice that the date on the "mozilla-win32-talkback.zip" is listed as
"10/25/2003 9:24:00 AM." But, when you actually download the file and install it
you find out that it's a 20031024 build. It wasn't created on 10/25 after all.
This can be verified by checking the MD5 of that file:
0DF5D142EDA6305C8255591CB9B969FA. It's the same MD5 as the
"mozilla-win32-talkback.zip" in the /pub/mozilla/nightly/2003-10-24-04-trunk/
directory with a modified date of "10/24/2003 9:50:00 AM." This *is* new
behavior within the last week.

Why are files that have not been modified in the "latest*" directories having
their dates changed so that they have the appearance of being created on a
different date than they actually were? This makes downloading appropriate
builds for testing more difficult because you can't see what you are getting.

Comment 1

[Jerry Baker]

Adding URL.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

ftpmoz.newaol.com is no longer in use.  If they even still have Mozilla files on
them I'm shocked. :)

Those servers belong to AOL, and they supposedly don't provide us with mirror
service anymore.

Comment 3

[Jason Bassford]

> ftpmoz.newaol.com is no longer in use.  If they even still have Mozilla files
> on them I'm shocked. :)

Apparently, it's still part of Mozilla's round robin, and it's offering up
mis-labelled builds.  Since Jerry got to it when trying to download today's
build - I don't see how this can be anything but a valid bug to be corrected...
 (Unless yet another bug needs to be opened to remove that server from the round
robin - or this one should be morphed to address the real issue?)

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

# host ftp.mozilla.org
ftp.mozilla.org has address 128.193.0.3
ftp.mozilla.org has address 129.79.6.160
ftp.mozilla.org has address 130.207.108.134
ftp.mozilla.org has address 204.152.184.113
# host 128.193.0.3
3.0.193.128.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ftp.oregonstate.edu.
# host 129.79.6.160
160.6.79.129.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu.
# host 130.207.108.134
134.108.207.130.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer tricia.cc.gatech.edu.
# host 204.152.184.113
113.184.152.204.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mozilla.isc.org.

I don't see ftpmoz.newaol.com in there anywhere.  If someone got it for
ftp.mozilla.org then they either have a DNS server with a really outdated cache
file or they have it in their local hosts file.

Comment 5

[Jerry Baker]

Um. The dates are wrong on ALL of the servers. I only used the AOL server with
the presumption that the mirrors got their files from there.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

ah.  Nope, AOL has nothing to do with anything except NNTP anymore.  The "master
source" is now stage.mozilla.org, which I don't believe has a publicly
accessible FTP.

On stage.mozilla.org:

[root@axolotl latest]# ls -alF mozilla-win32-talkback.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 cltbld   mozilla  11056732 Oct 25 06:24 mozilla-win32-talkback.zip
[root@axolotl latest]# md5sum mozilla-win32-talkback.zip 
0df5d142eda6305c8255591cb9b969fa  mozilla-win32-talkback.zip
[root@axolotl 2003-10-24-04-trunk]# ls -alF mozilla-win32-talkback.zip 
-rw-r--r--  1 cltbld   mozilla  11056732 Oct 24 06:50 mozilla-win32-talkback.zip
[root@axolotl 2003-10-24-04-trunk]# md5sum mozilla-win32-talkback.zip 
0df5d142eda6305c8255591cb9b969fa  mozilla-win32-talkback.zip

Yep, there's a discrepancy here....

Leaf?

Comment 7

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

I don't see this anymore.