[nycbug-talk] OpenBSD 4.4 bad checksum?

[Isaac Levy]

On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:53 AM, Ray Lai wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Isaac Levy <ike at lesmuug.org> wrote:
>> On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:33 AM, Ray Lai wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Isaac Levy <ike at lesmuug.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey All,
>>>>
>>>> For the OpenBSD folks here- whom do I report a bad checksum to?
>>>>
>>>> My download of this ISO from a mirror, I believe, is giving me the
>>>> wrong md5 checksum:
>>>> http://mirrors.24-7-solutions.net/pub/OpenBSD/4.4/i386/ 
>>>> install44.iso
>>>>
>>>> $ cat MD5 | grep install44
>>>> MD5 (install44.iso) = 6bff6dd0f2a703e5f99a82ed3e120b6c
>>>> $ openssl md5 install44.iso
>>>> MD5(install44.iso)= f3ad84cdde68754d6ac03ccce862165b
>>>>
>>>> I downloaded from another mirror and the checksum looks great.
>>>>
>>>> I looked around at the mirror's site, (24-7-solutions.net) and  
>>>> I'm not
>>>> sure who to contact...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance folks!
>>>>
>>>> Rocket-
>>>> .ike
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>> mirror at 24-7-solutions.net according to cvsweb:
>>
>> Cool, thanks, but before I shoot them an email,
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/www/build/mirrors.dat.diff?r1=1.134;r2=1.135;f=h
>>
>> can you explain this quick to me?
>
> I tracked down the change to ftp.html using cvs annotate that last
> touched ftp.html, to see if maybe the commit log included some contact
> info. I discovered it was generated by build/mirrors.dat, so I looked
> at the commit that was made at the same time ftp.html was regenerated
> (May 30, 2008), which pointed me to the diff I saw. At that time I
> realized that mirrors.dat actually contains the mirror maintainer's
> e-mail.
>
> Long story short, you can find the mirror maintainer's e-mail at
> build/mirrors.dat.
>
> -Ray-

Excellent- thanks Ray!

Rocket-
.ike