[CentOS-mirror] Terrible .edu mirror performance

[Tru Huynh]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 08:45:00AM +0600, Bangladeshi CentOS Mirror Maintainer [BD-SERVERS.NET] wrote:
> Hello All
> 
> I support Randy M, my mirror is mirrors.bd-servers.net has multiple
> address, that's not the issue, issue is the machine itself update any
> rpm via yum, it always choose .au mirrors!

[tru at woodstock ~]$ geoiplookup BD-SERVERS.NET
GeoIP Country Edition: CA, Canada
GeoIP City Edition, Rev 1: CA, BC, Kelowna, v1y9x1, 49.900002, -119.483299, 0, 0
[tru at woodstock ~]$ host BD-SERVERS.NET
BD-SERVERS.NET has address 69.10.136.107
BD-SERVERS.NET mail is handled by 0 BD-SERVERS.NET.
[tru at woodstock ~]$ host  bauani.org
bauani.org has address 69.10.136.107
bauani.org has IPv6 address 2001:470:9f54::3
bauani.org mail is handled by 0 mail.bauani.org.

Maybe our geoip db is out of date...

> 
> Other box in same subnet, also choose most  of the time .au mirror. So
> I have to change the yum.conf of all CentOS box to use
> mirrors.bd-servers.net. More funny thing is from mirror access log, I
> found most of request is coming from India, Pakistan, Nepal etc. Few
> Bangladeshi IP also shows up, but it is too low in numbers. I think
> the problem is on fastmirror plugin.
[tru at woodstock ~]$ host mirrors.bd-servers.net
mirrors.bd-servers.net has address 175.158.99.139
mirrors.bd-servers.net has address 180.211.221.26
mirrors.bd-servers.net has address 175.158.99.141
mirrors.bd-servers.net has address 175.158.99.140
mirrors.bd-servers.net has IPv6 address 2403:1200::2
[tru at woodstock ~]$ geoiplookup mirrors.bd-servers.net
GeoIP Country Edition: BD, Bangladesh
[tru at woodstock ~]$ geoiplookup 175.158.99.139
GeoIP Country Edition: BD, Bangladesh
[tru at woodstock ~]$ geoiplookup 180.211.221.26
GeoIP Country Edition: BD, Bangladesh
[tru at woodstock ~]$ geoiplookup 175.158.99.141
GeoIP Country Edition: BD, Bangladesh
[tru at woodstock ~]$ geoiplookup 175.158.99.140
GeoIP Country Edition: BD, Bangladesh
[tru at woodstock ~]$ 

Tru
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Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance)
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B
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