[CentOS-mirror] Add Public Mirror
Anssi Johansson
centos at miuku.net
Tue Feb 14 09:11:05 UTC 2017
13.2.2017, 15.14, Fernando García kirjoitti:
> Hello, thanks for the answer
> Yes, that's where we get our ip addresses. As you will see in the following
> link, they are located in Spain and direct connection in Spain.
>
> https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/query.html?searchtext=37.59.229.161
I'm afraid that does not prove much. That RIPE entry only tells which
organization is responsible for the IP addresses, and where that
organization is located.
I have a virtual server in France (Gandi), and ping times for your IP
address is around 5ms. Ping times to other Spanish CentOS mirrors vary,
but the minimum seemed to be 25ms.
Here's a traceroute from Gandi:
$ traceroute mirror.neify.es -q1
traceroute to mirror.neify.es (37.59.229.161), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 217.70.191.253 (217.70.191.253) 0.480 ms
2 xe0-0-1-2-core3-d.paris.gandi.net (217.70.176.249) 2.828 ms
3 *
4 be10-1180.rbx-g1-a9.fr.eu (213.251.130.52) 4.581 ms
5 vl21.rbx-g1-a75.fr.eu (213.251.128.77) 4.122 ms
6 rbx-g5-a9.fr.eu (37.187.36.14) 5.202 ms
7 37.59.229.161 (37.59.229.161) 9.263 ms
In effect, this means your mirror server is actually in France even if
the controlling organization is in Spain.
We can still list your mirror, but it should be listed as being in
France as opposed to being in Spain. The purpose of the list of mirrors
is not to specify where the controlling organization is, but where the
actual mirror server is located. This is to reduce the amount of
international data transfer and to give the fastest results for CentOS
users. It does not make sense to make Spanish users use a mirror located
in France, if mirrors located in Spain are also available.
Please let us know if you have opposing views about this, otherwise we'd
prefer to change the listed country of your mirror to France.
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