Anssi is right, I don't see anywhere that they host in mexico. All other geo IP lookup tools point to Denver US. Even using maxmind, It tells us ISP and Organization is fdcservers.net If we look here: https://www.fdcservers.net/network.php There is no mention of Mexico, but there is mention of Denver, US, where other Geo IP's point to. If you go directly to 204.45.61.61, it points to http://litehost.co/ Which is located in Chicago, IL, US where traceroute from any location points to. Their website says "Our Tier 3 datacenter is located in Chicago, IL ensuring 99.9% uptime." Nothing about other locations. Finally traceroute mentions host-engine, http://host-engine.com/network.htm, Again only mentions of either Chicago and Denver "Our servers are located in Tier III datacenters on Denver, Miami and Chicago, connected to 1gbps uplink, guaranteeing 99% uptime and the best ping." I think we can conclude that, the server is actually located in US. Alex ________________________________ From: CentOS-mirror <centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of Anssi Johansson <avij at centosproject.org> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 10:16:52 AM To: centos-mirror at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] New mirror 18.3.2017, 18.25, Mach Host kirjoitti: > hello, > > this ip is from SOFTLAYER, softlayer has servers in mexico but is not > peering with mexican providers in order to save some money, all traffic > going to softlayer is routed thought dallas. > > So, please delete all centos mirrors from softlayer as they are not > peering in mexico > then provide me a true mexican ip so i can perform the tracert. > > Here i attach a tracert from my server and from my home in mexico, BOTH > are forced to go throught Dallas by $oftlayer I'm sorry my example of a Mexican IP address was not good enough for you. That was not a mirror's IP address, but that is probably not relevant. Softlayer does peer with some Mexican providers, but apparently not with the ones you are using. Which Mexican ISPs are you peering with? But the thing is, I can find tons of examples where traceroute to your server goes through U.S., but none that would show that it would go directly from a host in Mexico to your mirror. In this situation, I believe the burden of proof is on you. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, as the saying goes. Please find me an example traceroute which shows true Mexico <-> Mexico connectivity and then I can have a closer look. This would also need to be something that I can verify myself -- examples of such verifiable claims include ISPs' looking glass websites, where I can give an IP address and the website will run a traceroute to the specified address. I would also like to reiterate that I don't particularly care where the servers itself are located, but where they are exposed to the rest of the Internet. If you route all the mirror's traffic through some VPN to a U.S. IP address, it is a U.S. mirror from our point of view and not a Mexican mirror. _______________________________________________ CentOS-mirror mailing list CentOS-mirror at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20170318/b2fcbc50/attachment-0004.html>