Comment 11 for bug 941784

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:22:41 -0000
James Tunnicliffe <email address hidden> wrote:

> I don't know if these are helpful:
> http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1109#04
> https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=21514

First link doesn't open for me (connection hangs), 2nd is of 2008 with
vague responses of AWS folks like "The issue may have been caused by an
unusually long propagation delay." Both symbolize state of EC2 issues
very well ;-).

> It looks like posting on the AWS forums may get some support on the
> matter. Since we have tried an internal and external apt source,

Not sure what you mean here. Initial mirror was on a plain EC2
instance(s), with files served by by Apache, new mirror is on S3, with
files served by AWS specialized file service. In the end, they both
have the same issues (with the very first being misreporting of errors).

> it
> would seem to be a problem with the EC2 instance and posting on the
> forums would seem to be the way to go.
>
> Would it be easy to deploy a test instance somewhere else, like
> http://www.bigv.io/ or http://www.rackspace.co.uk/cloud-hosting/cloud-
> products/cloud-servers/ or your local machine and run a set of builds
> to test to see if we have problems outside Amazon's cloud?

That sounds like a (long) good plan, but I'm not sure we're the right
team to execute it. For example, it might be a good thing for Ubuntu
EC2 team to do in bounds of https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/932088 .
Speaking of us, that would for sure require separate ticket for it, and
based on other issues we have, it might get Low priority. That said,
I'd like to register on their forum and post about this issue, unless
carried away by other more urgent issues.

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Best Regards,
Paul

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