[CentOS-mirror] Wrong mirrors returned by http://mirrorlist.centos.org/

Thu Jul 17 10:25:34 UTC 2014
Anssi Johansson <centos at miuku.net>

17.7.2014 13.21, Mark Karpeles kirjoitti:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Fabian Arrotin
> <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> wrote:
>> The mirrorlist process checks the incoming IP and queries the GeoIP.dat
>> database (geolite from Maxmind) and then verify the actual list of valid
>> mirrors for that country : if not enough mirrors in that country are
>> available, the mirrorlist script adds several mirrors from a nearby country.
>
>
> The situation is not correct. For example:
> http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6.5&arch=x86_64&repo=os&ip=118.27.8.150
>
> The returned list is obviously made up of mostly Chinese or Taiwanese mirrors.

$ curl -4 
'http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6.5&arch=x86_64&repo=os&ip=118.27.8.150'
http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/pub/Linux/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
http://ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/Linux/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
http://www.ftp.ne.jp/Linux/packages/CentOS/6.5/os/x86_64/
http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/CentOS/6.5/os/x86_64/
http://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/linux/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
http://mirror.fairway.ne.jp/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
http://centos.mirror.secureax.com/6.5/os/x86_64/
http://mirrors.aliyun.com/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/
http://mirrors.stuhome.net/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/

Looks mostly Japanese to me..

As an aside, you should use 6 instead of 6.5 in that URL.