Tier 1 mirror application - CICKU

[Baptiste Jonglez]

On 30-01-26, Christopher M wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 3:29 PM Baptiste Jonglez <
> baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > It's a bit of a difficult case.
> >
> > Your technical setup looks great.  However, we are not looking for a
> > global CDN, but rather for a way to efficiently distribute files to a
> > diverse network of tier-2 mirrors.  As such, we would like all tier-1
> > mirrors to behave the same as much as possible, and your rsync setup does
> > not seem to allow that.
> 
> > In any case, I think your setup would work fine as a tier-2.  Where are
> > you mirroring from currently?
> 
> The upstream is openwrt.tetaneutral.net/openwrt
> 
> Just got your another email, I actually want those old releases still
> available via rsync to mirror operators - once I upload them into the
> object storage, they will last forever and be served from CDN globally, as
> a backup to your archive download site.

Good plan, more archives are always nice!

> If you can open access to me, that'd be great - I can still happily stay as
> a Tier 2 because at least I cover the USA (currently there is no mirror). I
> have no idea who tetaneutral is, so if they sudden go away, then I have to
> find another upstream (and I'm not familiar with any upstream outside USA
> except for RWTH Aachen, but they are "pending").

tetaneutral is a non-profit ISP/hoster in France, I actually happen to be
the person managing that mirror ;)

FYI RWTH Aachen did the setup a few days ago and they accepted to carry
the extended mirror set, so you can get all past releases through rsync on
their mirror:

  https://openwrt.org/mirrors#tier-1_mirrors

Baptiste