Even though the final destination does not accept ICMP, the routing from my location goes to New York, NJ, and then Canada. It is highly unlikely that the mirror is located anywhere other than Canada. Cheers, Nathan On 11/18/20 12:15 AM, Christopher Hawker wrote: > AFAIK, you don't need to be an IT company, or even operate a business. > You just need to be able to meet the requirements for hosting a CentOS > mirror so being a reseller shouldn't matter. > > The mirrors should be removed as they are not in the locations mentioned. > > Thanks, > Christopher Hawker > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* CentOS-mirror <centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of > Alexandre Leonenko <alex at esecuredata.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, 18 November 2020 1:20 PM > *To:* Mailing list for CentOS mirrors. <centos-mirror at centos.org>; > richardmuise.ca at gmail.com <richardmuise.ca at gmail.com> > *Subject:* Re: [CentOS-mirror] Mirror: centos-canada.vdssunucu.com.tr > listed as Canadian mirror > To me it seems like Altinsoft.net is actually a reseller. They don't > own any actual servers. In Canada, certain locations, the power costs > are cheaper than Europe > That's probably the reason the mirror hosted here in Canada. > > And like Christopher mentioned, both IPs resolve to OVH in Quebec > http://i.ping.pe/A/P/img_AP8D9PsK.png > http://i.ping.pe/h/d/img_hduxpPZ2.png > > Regards, > Alex > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* CentOS-mirror <centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of > Christopher Hawker <email at chrishawker.com.au> > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 17, 2020 6:08 PM > *To:* Mailing list for CentOS mirrors. <centos-mirror at centos.org>; > richardmuise.ca at gmail.com <richardmuise.ca at gmail.com> > *Subject:* Re: [CentOS-mirror] Mirror: centos-canada.vdssunucu.com.tr > listed as Canadian mirror > According to the MaxMind GeoIP database, both IP addresses for both > servers are located in Canada. > > 192.95.3.130 is in Montreal, Quebec and 144.217.237.129 is in > Beauharnois, Quebec. > > As has already been established, neither mirror accepts ICMP packets, > so we cannot determine what the final destination is and where the > servers are accurately located. > > Both mirrors should be removed, until their location can be > established with 100% certainty. > > Thanks, > Christopher Hawker > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* CentOS-mirror <centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of > Richard Muise <richardmuise.ca at gmail.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, 18 November 2020 10:11 AM > *To:* Mailing list for CentOS mirrors. <centos-mirror at centos.org> > *Subject:* Re: [CentOS-mirror] Mirror: centos-canada.vdssunucu.com.tr > listed as Canadian mirror > Fabian, > Sorry I had missed the original messages from the previous > weekend. My search-fu is poor I guess. I see the thread now. > > My comments apply to both centos-canada.altinsoft.net and > centos-canada.vdssunucu.com.tr. They were both added in the same > thread, Nov 8th and Nov 14th respectively, and by the same email > address (support @ altinsoft.net). The domain servers for the second > mirror is listed as ns*.onecloudserver.net, which is also tied to > Altinsoft. > > Altinsoft.net is a hosting company, and their contact page only > lists their location as Turkey: https://www.altinsoft.net/contact. > Their terms of service also clearly indicates that Altinsoft is > Turkish company (see Supplier here: > https://www.altinsoft.net/terms-of-service - quote “AltınSoft > Information Technologies, a private company incorporated and > registered in the Republic of Turkey…”). > > Checking their hosting information, they state they have servers > around the world, including Canada > https://www.altinsoft.net/canada-ca-dedicated-servers (quote “Our > Canada location servers are hosted in the OVH Canada data center). > > So that confirms what Darrell and Jonathan reported - Canadian > GeoIP because it is hosted in the OVH data centre. But I cannot find > any information to indicate that Altinsoft, the company paying for > this mirror, is not situated in Turkey. I cannot guess the reason why > a Turkish company would choose to host a Centos Mirror for Canada when > they do not appear to be hosting any for users in Turkey (I checked > the 28 mirrors for Turkey). > > Finally, and this is just an opinion, but the mail in the mailing > list did not sound like a native English or French speaker. “We've > sent it before, but we haven't received an answer What is the > problem”, “Thank you for help” and “Please change.". > > Perhaps this is not enough grounds to change the mirror list, but > it does raise a number of flags. > > Thank you for responding and pointing me to GeoIP, which I had > not used before. And thank you for the work to maintain the list. I’ve > been a volunteer in other projects, and I know it’s hard to balance > incoming requests vs full-time work and family. > > > > > On Nov 17, 2020, at 11:14 AM, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote: > > > > On 17/11/2020 16:59, Richard Muise wrote: > >> I’d like to suggest that the mirror centos-canada.vdssunucu.com.tr > >> <http://centos-canada.vdssunucu.com.tr> should not be listed as a > >> Canadian mirror. The IP look indicates the virtual host is in Turkey, > >> not Canada. Perhaps it should be listed under Turkey mirrors instead. > >> > >> I searched the Centos-mirror mailing list and could not find any > >> discussion of this site before. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > > > > I know it looked "strange" by looking at vhost/fqdn, but GeoIP lookup > > confirmed (from our pre-flight check) that it's indeed in Canada > > > > And here is the original request that arrived on mailman, so yes, it was > > discussed : > > > https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/2020-November/024530.html > > > > Do you have other GeoIP DB/proof that server isn't located in Canada ? > > -- > > Fabian Arrotin > > The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org > > gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS-mirror mailing list > > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-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... 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