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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-AU link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Like 12 months? Its just the hostname of our msync mirror server we operate here in Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Seamus Ryan<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 3 July 2015 6:57 PM<br><b>To:</b> Mailing list for CentOS mirrors.<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [CentOS-mirror] msync.centos.org issues from Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>I am curious, for how long has “centose7.centos.org” been in use.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>First I have heard of it…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Matthew Taylor<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 3 July 2015 6:07 PM<br><b>To:</b> Mailing list for CentOS mirrors.<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [CentOS-mirror] msync.centos.org issues from Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi Seamus,<br><br>Fair point in regards to the centose7.centos.org A Record. <br><br>Perhaps you could use it until potential issues with msync.centos.org have been resolved */subtle nudge to Fabian to investigate!* ?<br><br>Regards,<br>Matthew.<span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 3/07/2015 17:42, Seamus Ryan wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>centose7.centos.org doesn’t appear to be globally distributed (<a href="https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/centose7.centos.org">https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/centose7.centos.org</a>)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>However msync.centos.org is (<a href="https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/msync.centos.org">https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/msync.centos.org</a>)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The reason I point towards the Australian POP is due to the fact quite a few mirrors have dropped in and out of sync several times over the last week, all about the same time. No other region appears to be experiencing these issues.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It seems either msync.centos.org is broken for Australian ISP’s (seems the geo-load balancing is a bit sporadic) or something else is going on. When I query pdns1/2/3.centos.org for msync.centos.org I get an array of responses, some local and some international</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>103.18.205.7</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>199.187.126.92</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>124.217.252.175</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>216.172.56.29</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Not exactly sure what is going on here, but something isn’t right….</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>Seamus</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> <a href="mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org">centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org</a> [<a href="mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org">mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Matthew Taylor<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 3 July 2015 5:23 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:centos-mirror@centos.org">centos-mirror@centos.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [CentOS-mirror] msync.centos.org issues from Australia</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi all,<br><br>Interesting... We (centos.mirror.digitalpacific.com.au, AS55803, 101.0.101.66) pull all of our CentOS content from centose7.centos.org (which resolves to 103.18.205.7), and we've had no problems at all.<br><br>Perhaps it may be related to msync.centos.org not redirecting the requests correctly? For starters, I receive an A Record for a msync node not even local to AU:<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>[root@mirror ~]# dig @pdns1.centos.org msync.centos.org +short<br>124.217.252.175<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>^ AS45839, Malaysia.<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>[root@mirror ~]# mtr 124.217.252.175 -r -c 5 -n<br>HOST: mirror.digitalpacific.com.a Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev<br> 1. 101.0.101.65 0.0% 5 2.2 2.4 2.2 2.9 0.3<br> 2. 101.0.127.189 0.0% 5 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.0<br> 3. 101.0.127.229 0.0% 5 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.0<br> 4. 202.68.66.209 0.0% 5 0.8 0.5 0.3 0.8 0.2<br> 5. 202.68.64.67 0.0% 5 0.8 0.6 0.6 0.8 0.1<br> 6. 129.250.3.76 0.0% 5 120.2 120.4 120.2 121.1 0.4<br> 7. 129.250.6.209 0.0% 5 120.4 122.8 120.2 133.0 5.7<br> 8. 129.250.2.121 0.0% 5 166.8 169.8 165.1 180.4 6.1<br> 9. 129.250.5.83 0.0% 5 168.9 168.8 168.3 169.7 0.6<br> 10. 180.87.112.153 0.0% 5 165.1 165.8 165.1 168.4 1.5<br> 11. 180.87.112.142 20.0% 5 200.1 200.0 200.0 200.1 0.0<br> 12. 180.87.163.26 0.0% 5 199.3 199.3 199.1 199.7 0.2<br> 13. 180.87.12.1 0.0% 5 191.0 191.0 190.9 191.0 0.0<br> 14. 216.6.121.137 20.0% 5 200.5 199.7 197.5 200.5 1.5<br> 15. 216.6.121.62 20.0% 5 201.0 201.0 200.9 201.1 0.1<br> 16. 124.217.252.175 60.0% 5 208.0 209.0 208.0 210.1 1.5<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>..and it seems to be having issues too! Perhaps that could be one of the reasons why the AU mirrors are all over the place..?<br><br>Regards,<br>Matthew.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 3/07/2015 17:11, <a href="mailto:daniel@glovine.com.au">daniel@glovine.com.au</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hey Seamus</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Just confirmed with a few people that our msync mirror is fine,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Can you A, tell me your servers IP/hostname?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>B, set your cron to use centose7.centos.org instead of mysnc hostname?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Daniel</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> <a href="mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org">centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org</a> [<a href="mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org">mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Seamus Ryan<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 3 July 2015 4:32 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:centos-mirror@centos.org">centos-mirror@centos.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [CentOS-mirror] msync.centos.org issues from Australia</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I was just wondering if there is something funny going on with msync.centos.org’s availability within Australia. I see it is geo-load balanced to various places around the world, but in particular in Australia we are (in many cases) sent to<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>103.18.205.7 - 7-205-18-103.static.glovine.com.au<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That’s all well and good, but a quick look at <a href="http://mirror-status.centos.org/">http://mirror-status.centos.org/</a> reveals quite a few of the Australian mirrors have been all over the place over the last few weeks, which would somewhat suggest something is up with this mirror source?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any clues?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Seamus<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>CentOS-mirror mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:CentOS-mirror@centos.org">CentOS-mirror@centos.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror">http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>