Redirected to mirror without requested file about mirrormanager2 HOT 1 OPEN

I am not convinced this is the right place to report this (sorry @lubomir).

Basically this situation is "works as designed". The mirror mirror.vutbr.cz uses (as recommended) report_mirror to update their status in the MirrorManager database. report_mirror only transfers a list of directories which are supposed to be up to date. The actual content of the directories is never submitted via report_mirror. If I remember it correctly the reason behind this is that the amount of data would be rather large if the directory content is also submitted. So, mirrors which are using report_mirror are working on a trust basis that they actually have the content they claim. This seems to work most of the time.

The correct fix probably requires a re-evaluation of how report_mirror should work. We need if for private mirrors and if private mirrors submit the wrong content via report_mirror it only affects clients from that institution. For public mirrors it is a great help to make updated mirrors faster available to all clients, but is also can lead to mirrors marked as up to date, which actually do not have the content.

from mirrormanager2.