[CentOS-mirror] GEOIP issue for new caledonia mirror

[Irelann Anderson]

Thanks, it does.


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Fabian Arrotin
<fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>wrote:

> On 14/03/14 17:05, Irelann Anderson wrote:
> > Probably completely unrelated, but I no longer get our own mirror listed
> > when I try
> >   curl -4 "http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os"
> >
> > I get:
> >
> >     http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
> >     http://mirrors.cmich.edu/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
> >     http://mirror.team-cymru.org/CentOS/6.5/os/x86_64/
> >     http://mirror.keystealth.org/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
> >     http://centos-distro.cavecreek.net/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
> >     http://mirrors.usinternet.com/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
> >     http://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
> >     http://bay.uchicago.edu/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
> >     http://mirror.ubiquityservers.com/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
> >     http://mirror.metrocast.net/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
> >
> >
> > And if I try via IPv6, I get
> >
> >     po=os"
> >     http://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/centos/6/os/x86_64/
> >     http://mirror.steadfast.net/centos/6/os/x86_64/
> >     http://linux.mirrors.es.net/centos/6/os/x86_64/
> >     http://centos.mirror.constant.com/6/os/x86_64/
> >     http://mirrors.xmission.com/centos/6/os/x86_64/
> >     http://centos.mirror.lstn.net/6/os/x86_64/
> >     http://mirror.keystealth.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/
> >     http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/centos/6/os/x86_64/
> >     http://mirrors.syringanetworks.net/centos/6/os/x86_64/
> >     http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/centos/6/os/x86_64/
> >
> > Our own public mirror "mirrors.maine.edu <http://mirrors.maine.edu>"
> > does not appear on either list.   It is both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled and
> > is on the same network as the machine I issued the queries from.  If it
> > makes any difference, our ASN is 557
> >
>
> It would be better to start another thread, but : the current mirrorlist
> process generate a list of mirrors for each country, and if there is
> only one or two mirrors (as it was the case for the New Caledonia -NC- ,
> it completes the mirror list with mirrors from "nearby countries"
> (Australia in that case).
> So the current logic in the mirrorlist process doesn't look at the ASN,
> but just an IP -> country conversion.
> As we have a *lot* of mirrors in .us, the mirrorlist process select the
> top mirrors for that country, and so the reason why your own mirror is
> probably not listed (or can be, depending on the load, etc ..)
> That's even different for ipv6, as it's a different script (but mostly
> the same logic).
> Hope that this answers your question.
>
>
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> Fabian Arrotin
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