[AusNOG] centos.org

[Paul Gear]

Uh, no.  It's very much alive and reinvigorated since Red Hat decided to 
employ the core CentOS development team (earlier this year? late last 
year? Can't remember; regardless, it was about 4-5 years late).

Check their security announcements mailing list and you'll see. CentOS 
is on a much more stable footing now than it was a year or two ago.

Paul

On 06/18/2014 03:36 PM, Colin Stubbs wrote:
>
> You're still using CentOS? Seriously? 2008, if I recall correctly, the 
> problems started. By 2011 it was effectively a dead distro.
>
> There's other EL distros and better EL distros for your systems. e.g. 
> Scientific.... used by CERN to, in part, support the LHC.
>
> https://www.scientificlinux.org/
>
>
>
> On 18 June 2014 14:12, Daniel Watson <dwatsonwatto1988 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dwatsonwatto1988 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thats not good for anybody using any CentOS... as this means yum
>     will no longer function unless you have a static yum.repo file
>     configured
>
>     I think its time we need an Australian master mirror and
>     mirrorlists :D
>
>     Daniel
>
>
>     On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Ross Annetts
>     <ross.annetts at digitalpacific.com.au
>     <mailto:ross.annetts at digitalpacific.com.au>> wrote:
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>         Hi,
>
>          Not specifically network related, but this is a courtesy
>         since it may affect a large amount of noggers.
>
>          Name servers have been removed from centos.org
>         <http://centos.org> and it seems to be in transfer.
>
>          $ whois centos.org <http://centos.org>
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>         WHOIS Server:
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>         Tech ID:COMLDE-030265
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>         DNSSEC:Unsigned
>
>         Kind Regards,
>         Ross Annetts
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