[Support-mirrors] Test of new server

[Tom Copeland]

> Tom Copeland wrote:
> > On a mirroring note, I've restarted the various cronjobs that check 
> > for new gems/files and ping the mirror master... hopefully 
> you'll see 
> > some hits once folks start to deploy gems again...
> 
> Maybe you could put a test gem in your repository and check 
> if it gets distributed properly? A good idea for a small test 
> run via cron as well, to monitor the health of the mechanism :)

True, that would be a good idea.  It'd be good if I could work in some
sort of ping test on each mirror machine too... right now I have to
manually remove them from the rotation if one goes offline.  Sounds like
a good job for a small Ruby script!  I'll see what I can do...

Yours,

Tom