[CentOS-mirror] msync.centos.org issues from Australia

Mon Jul 6 07:07:05 UTC 2015
Matthew Taylor <matthew.taylor at digitalpacific.com.au>

On 6/07/2015 16:45, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
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> On 03/07/15 08:31, Seamus Ryan wrote:
>> Greetings,
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>> 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
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>> 103.18.205.7 - 7-205-18-103.static.glovine.com.au
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>> That’s all well and good, but a quick look at
>> http://mirror-status.centos.org/ 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?
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>> Any clues?
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>> Cheers,
>>
>> Seamus
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> Well, that machine is the only msync node we have for Oceania (and is
> located in Australia), so that's normal that you're redirected to that
> node.
> But as it's currently the only node we have there, some other nodes
> from other countries were also put in the same list.
> I can investigate, and directly just point all .au (or nodes Oceania)
> to just a single node, and see how it goes, and if the available
> bandwidth on that single node is enough or not.
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> Cheers,
>
> - -- 
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> Fabian Arrotin
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It's probably worth a shot just pointing all .au nodes to the current 
msync node purely for troubleshooting.. assuming there isn't any 
problems should the msync node go offline..?

Matt.