Hello Since about 1 month mirror selection stopped to use my mirror for downloading updates (all servers are in the single AS).The selector uses mirror from USA which are very, very slow. I live in Poland and I run public mirror (http://mirror.kielcetechnologypark.net/centos) for CentOS. I'm wondering how the mirror selection works. Can some one explain it to me ?
Pozdrawiam / Best Regards
Sebastian Sala
IThelper.pl - Sebastian Sala
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Hello againI've noticed that the issue with strange mirror selection applies only with IPv6 addressing (I deployed it in the same period of time when the systems started to use USA mirrors as the fastest one). When I disable IPv6 on the host it starts to use my mirror. Pozdrawiam / Best Regards
Sebastian Sala
IThelper.pl - Sebastian Sala
ul.Zalesie 59
25-825 Kielce
NIP: 959-156-29-11
mob. +48 506 991 246
e-mail: biuro@ithelper.pl
URL www.ithelper.pl
From: sebastian.sala@windowslive.com To: centos-mirror@centos.org Subject: How mirror selection works Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:35:39 +0100
Hello Since about 1 month mirror selection stopped to use my mirror for downloading updates (all servers are in the single AS).The selector uses mirror from USA which are very, very slow. I live in Poland and I run public mirror (http://mirror.kielcetechnologypark.net/centos) for CentOS. I'm wondering how the mirror selection works. Can some one explain it to me ?
Pozdrawiam / Best Regards
Sebastian Sala
IThelper.pl - Sebastian Sala
ul.Zalesie 59
25-825 Kielce
NIP: 959-156-29-11
mob. +48 506 991 246
e-mail: biuro@ithelper.pl
URL www.ithelper.pl
Sebastian Sala kirjoitti:
Hello again
I've noticed that the issue with strange mirror selection applies only with IPv6 addressing (I deployed it in the same period of time when the systems started to use USA mirrors as the fastest one). When I disable IPv6 on the host it starts to use my mirror.
Yes, the reason why your mirror http://mirror-pl.kielcetechnologypark.net/centos/ is not listed on the IPv6 mirror list is that all the IPv6 mirror monitoring nodes (in ASs 31211, 29169, 13213, 6939) have problems connecting to your mirror.
I don't know what's going on, but..
$ ping6 mirror-pl.kielcetechnologypark.net PING mirror-pl.kielcetechnologypark.net(2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=52.5 ms 64 bytes from 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=58.3 ms From 2a02:f40:d100:2::2 icmp_seq=3 Destination unreachable: Unknown code 6 64 bytes from 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=52.1 ms 64 bytes from 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5: icmp_seq=5 ttl=55 time=52.2 ms 64 bytes from 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5: icmp_seq=6 ttl=55 time=53.5 ms From 2a02:f40:d100:2::2 icmp_seq=7 Destination unreachable: Unknown code 6 64 bytes from 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5: icmp_seq=8 ttl=55 time=52.3 ms 64 bytes from 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5: icmp_seq=9 ttl=55 time=52.2 ms 64 bytes from 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5: icmp_seq=10 ttl=55 time=52.5 ms From 2a02:f40:d100:2::2 icmp_seq=11 Destination unreachable: Unknown code 6 64 bytes from 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5: icmp_seq=12 ttl=55 time=52.1 ms 64 bytes from 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5: icmp_seq=13 ttl=55 time=52.2 ms 64 bytes from 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5: icmp_seq=14 ttl=55 time=52.2 ms From 2a02:f40:d100:2::2 icmp_seq=15 Destination unreachable: Unknown code 6 64 bytes from 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5: icmp_seq=16 ttl=55 time=52.2 ms 64 bytes from 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5: icmp_seq=17 ttl=55 time=55.8 ms
$ telnet mirror-pl.kielcetechnologypark.net 80 Trying 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5... Connected to mirror-pl.kielcetechnologypark.net. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. (connection closed immediately)
$ telnet mirror-pl.kielcetechnologypark.net 80 Trying 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5... telnet: connect to address 2001:67c:1b8c:1100:603::5: Protocol error
Perhaps you should try connecting to your mirror from outside of your network over IPv6. Once you've figured out the problem and fixed it, the CentOS IPv6 mirrorlist servers will start directing traffic to your server again.