[om-infra] New mirror: ftp.acc.umu.se
Niklas Edmundsson
nikke at acc.umu.se
Sun Apr 9 07:47:33 EDT 2017
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
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>>>> Niklas Edmundsson, Admin @ {acc,hpc2n}.umu.se |
>>>> nikke at acc.umu.se
>>>>
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>>>> "I just figured you'd be terrified and I'd be sarcastic about it." -
>>>> Anya
>>>>
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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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>> Rush thinks he's a wit. He's half right.
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>
/Nikke
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