[CentOS-mirror] New CentOS mirror for Sweden

Wed Mar 28 06:11:07 UTC 2018
Jonas Anden <jonas.anden at aptilo.com>

Traceroute from my home (ISP Bahnhof, location Stockholm, Sweden) shows
traffic routed via Russia:

--
traceroute to se.mirror.guru (185.86.150.220), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  Rutter (192.168.1.1)  0.884 ms  0.827 ms  0.792 ms
 2  h-248-187.A444.corp.bahnhof.se (176.10.248.187)  1.866 ms  1.854 ms
1.084 ms
 3  212.37.8.89 (212.37.8.89)  14.225 ms  14.311 ms  14.448 ms
 4  ste-cgn-ar1.sto-cr1.bahnhof.net (46.59.117.184)  1.925 ms  2.019 ms
2.080 ms
 5  netnod-ix-ge-a-sth-1500.rascom.ru (194.68.123.188)  2.023 ms  2.030
ms  1.952 ms
 6  81-27-252-201.rascom.as20764.net (81.27.252.201)  8.602 ms  11.790
ms  11.763 ms
 7  hosted-by.yourserver.se (95.215.45.5)  7.482 ms  7.521 ms  7.496 ms
--

Whois also points to an address in Latvia:

--
inetnum:        185.86.150.0 - 185.86.150.254
netname:        YOURSERVER-SE
descr:          Virtual Server hosting
country:        SE
admin-c:        MB43991-RIPE
tech-c:         MB43991-RIPE
status:         ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by:         YOURSERVER
created:        2017-06-25T07:40:58Z
last-modified:  2017-06-25T07:40:58Z
source:         RIPE

person:         Michael Bentov
address:        Yourserver SIA
address:        Ulbrokas 23, Riga, LV-1021, Latvia
phone:          +371 60001383
nic-hdl:        MB43991-RIPE
mnt-by:         YOURSERVER
created:        2017-05-18T21:01:59Z
last-modified:  2017-05-18T21:06:24Z
source:         RIPE
--

So no, this server does not appear to be in Sweden.

  // J

On 03/27/2018 04:23 PM, Anssi Johansson wrote:
> Balazs Baranyi kirjoitti 27.3.2018 klo 16.09:
>> HTTP: http://se.mirror.guru/centos
>> FTP: n/a
>> RSYNC: n/a
>>
>> Sync schedule: Every hr
>> Bandwidth: 1Gbit/s
>> Location: Gothenburg. Sweden
>> Sponsor: MirrorGuru
>> Sponsor URL: http://mirror.guru
>> IPv4 address to authorize: 185.86.150.220
>> IPv6 address to authorize: none
>> Email contact: bb at twomiles.co.uk
>> Mirroring AltArch  : no
> 
> Hmm, I'm not entirely sure of the location. I live in Finland and I ran
> a traceroute to that address:
> 
> $ traceroute -q1 se.mirror.guru
> traceroute to se.mirror.guru (185.86.150.220), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
>  1  dsl-hkibng31-54fab0-2.dhcp.inet.fi (84.250.176.2)  6.686 ms
>  2  *
>  3  hls-b1-link.telia.net (62.115.143.84)  7.032 ms
>  4  tln-b3-link.telia.net (62.115.136.199)  12.474 ms
>  5  riga-b1-link.telia.net (80.91.248.150)  14.007 ms
>  6  telialatvija-ic-332270-riga-b1.c.telia.net (213.248.84.33)  14.661 ms
>  7  78.28.193.99 (78.28.193.99)  14.868 ms
>  8  91.203.71.131 (91.203.71.131)  14.814 ms
>  9  *
> 10  hosted-by.yourserver.se (95.215.45.5)  27.066 ms
> 11  *
> 12  *
> 13  *
> 
> I was surprised that the traffic was routed via Tallinn (Estonia) and
> Riga (Latvia). Finland and Sweden are connected to each other with
> reasonably fat pipes, and most of our traffic to Europe is routed via
> Sweden.
> 
> Could you please run a few "traceroute -q1"s from your mirror server to
> other Swedish hosts, such as other Swedish mirrors? The traceroutes
> should stay within Sweden. Here are my test results for comparison:
> http://miuku.net/tmp/traceroute-sweden.txt
> 
> In other news, I've renamed mirror.guru to fr.mirror.guru.
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