[om-infra] New mirror: ftp.acc.umu.se

Jean-Claude Vanier jclvanier at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 09:16:55 EDT 2017


Ok, I used those (French) sites:
https://www.hostip.fr/
http://trouver-ip.com/
The first one says it uses www.maxmind.com

2017-04-09 13:47 GMT+02:00 Niklas Edmundsson <nikke at acc.umu.se>:
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2017, Jean-Claude Vanier wrote:
>
>>> Which particular service told you the IP is located in Stockholm?
>>
>>
>> http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/openmandriva.org/ --> ping ftp.acc.umu.se
>> --> 194.71.11.173 --> Stockholm (according to the IP geolocators)
>
>
> Well, it's the "IP geolocators" that I need more details on.
>
> I already know which IP addresses we have ;)
>
>
>
>> 2017-04-08 22:51 GMT+02:00 Niklas Edmundsson <nikke at acc.umu.se>:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 8 Apr 2017, Jean-Claude Vanier wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Niklas,
>>>> first of all, we 'd like to thank you very much for your offer. We
>>>> really appreciate!
>>>>
>>>> The link for the mailing lists has been fixed (thank you for letting us
>>>> know).
>>>>
>>>> The format we use in the mirrors lists includes the city name where
>>>> the server is located and the related longitude and latitude.
>>>> I thought it was in Umeå, but the IP points to Stockholm.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Umeå, Sweden, Europe is correct.
>>>
>>> $ host -t loc ftp.acc.umu.se
>>> ftp.acc.umu.se location 63 49 17.000 N 20 18 20.000 E 50.00m 1m 30m 10m
>>>
>>>
>>>> I guess this is related the the NOTE 2. Is that right ? Anyway, it seems
>>>> there isn't any issue till now :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This IP segment was previously used by ftp.sunet.se located in Uppsala,
>>> which is close to Stockholm but not quite. It's now used to provide our
>>> dedicated network capacity for the file archive.
>>>
>>> We're working together with SUNET to get everything we can control
>>> updated.
>>> Which particular service told you the IP is located in Stockholm?
>>>
>>> Routing-wise Stockholm isn't that wrong however, since it's the location
>>> where most peering in Sweden happen...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks again,
>>>> For the infra team
>>>> Jean-Claude Vanier
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2017-04-08 11:04 GMT+02:00 Niklas Edmundsson via OM-Infra
>>>> <om-infra at ml.openmandriva.org>:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to follow the instructions on
>>>>> https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/Mirroring in order to announce our new
>>>>> OpenMandriva mirror, but the workshop team contact link
>>>>> http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi does not seem to be working.
>>>>>
>>>>> After a bit of searching I found this email address/list that might be
>>>>> reaching the correct people, if not please pass this on to the correct
>>>>> place.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyhow:
>>>>>
>>>>> Academic Computer Club, Umeå University, Sweden, hereby announces the
>>>>> intent
>>>>> to provide a mirror of OpenMandriva.
>>>>>
>>>>> ftp.acc.umu.se enjoys 20 Gbps dedicated connectivity through SUNET,
>>>>> providing good connectivity to Sweden and also the rest of the Nordics
>>>>> and
>>>>> most of Europe via NORDUnet peering.
>>>>>
>>>>> We pull twice daily from
>>>>> rsync://mirror.yandex.ru/openmandriva/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> * HTTP base URL:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/openmandriva.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> * FTP:
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, but do not publish a clickable link. The cluster is highly
>>>>> optimised
>>>>> for http, users requiring ftp can usually figure it out due to the host
>>>>> name.
>>>>>
>>>>> * rsync base URL:
>>>>>
>>>>> rsync://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/openmandriva.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> * Contact email
>>>>> ftp-adm at acc.umu.se
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *NOTE*
>>>>>
>>>>> ftp.acc.umu.se is an alias pointing to the available frontends at the
>>>>> time.
>>>>> When using MirrorBrain you might have to explicitly tell it to NOT
>>>>> resolve
>>>>> the ftp.acc.umu.se name into components, or problems will ensue when we
>>>>> change the setup.
>>>>>
>>>>> *NOTE2*
>>>>>
>>>>> Our setup uses HTTP redirects to offload requests to specific offload
>>>>> hosts,
>>>>> the mirror status checking mechanism needs to allow redirects and not
>>>>> treat
>>>>> them as errors. It is also important to NOT cache the URLs resulting
>>>>> from
>>>>> the redirects, end users should always be served the ftp.acc.umu.se
>>>>> host
>>>>> name.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On behalf of the ftp.acc.umu.se admins,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> /Nikke
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>>>>>  Niklas Edmundsson, Admin @ {acc,hpc2n}.umu.se      |
>>>>> nikke at acc.umu.se
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>  "I just figured you'd be terrified and I'd be sarcastic about it." -
>>>>> Anya
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> /Nikke
>>> --
>>>
>>> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>>>  Niklas Edmundsson, Admin @ {acc,hpc2n}.umu.se      |
>>> nikke at acc.umu.se
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>  Rush thinks he's a wit.   He's half right.
>>>
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>>
>>
>
>
> /Nikke
> --
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>  Niklas Edmundsson, Admin @ {acc,hpc2n}.umu.se      |     nikke at acc.umu.se
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