Package: mirrors User: mirr...@packages.debian.org Usertags: httpredirControl: submitter -1 TAKAHASHI Shuhei <shu...@nya3.jp>
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: httpredir.debian.org unusable from Japan Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 02:08:15 +0900 From: TAKAHASHI Shuhei <shu...@nya3.jp> To: atom...@gmail.com CC: mirr...@debian.org Hi Raphael, (cc: mirr...@debian.org <mailto:mirr...@debian.org>) I'm writing to you to let you know that httpredir.debian.org <http://httpredir.debian.org> is sometimes unusable from Japan because it can redirect me to China mirrors. China hosts are often inaccessible from outside of China due to... you know. I recommend that httpredir should select China hosts only for China users. For example, from my home ISP, I'm redirected to inaccessible mirror server mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn <http://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn>. % curl -v http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ * Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache * Trying 128.31.0.66... * Connected to httpredir.debian.org <http://httpredir.debian.org> (128.31.0.66) port 80 (#0) > GET /debian/ HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.35.0 > Host: httpredir.debian.org <http://httpredir.debian.org> > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.1 302 Found < Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:46:09 GMT * Server Apache is not blacklisted < Server: Apache < Location: http://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/debian/ < Content-Type: text/plain < X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett < Transfer-Encoding: chunked < Also, I observed I'm sometimes redirected to mirrors.telecom.bg <http://mirrors.telecom.bg>, which does not make much sense for Asian users. I totally understand IP geolocation is a very hard problem, but there seems room for improvement in mirror selection logic. Best regards, Shuhei / nya -- TAKAHASHI Shuhei <shu...@nya3.jp <mailto:shu...@nya3.jp>>
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