Re: mirrors.fedoraproject.org from China

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Jason Vinton wrote:
> I have a simple question.  I live in Shanghai, and I have found that
> everything on:
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
> is blocked.
>
> A specific example of what is blocked is:
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f9.newkey&arch=x86_64
>
> If this site is unavailable, yum does not function.
>
> The part that concerns me is that it does not seem the be my ISP or
> the Chinese Great Firewall that is doing the blocking.
>
> Please see my tracepath:
>
> [foo@localhost ~]$ tracepath   mirrors.fedoraproject.org
>  1:  192.168.1.112 (192.168.1.112)                          0.301ms pmtu 1500
>  1:  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)                              2.099ms asymm 36
>  1:  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)                              1.788ms asymm 36
>  2:  Deleted - private
>  2:  Deleted - private
>  3:  Deleted - private
>  4:  Deleted - private
>  5:  124.74.210.193 (124.74.210.193)                        4.470ms asymm  6
>  6:  61.152.86.18 (61.152.86.18)                            5.346ms
>  7:  202.97.33.18 (202.97.33.18)                           19.011ms
>  8:  202.97.51.74 (202.97.51.74)                          197.722ms
>  9:  192.205.35.85 (192.205.35.85)                        185.788ms
> 10:  tbr1.sffca.ip.att.net (12.122.86.26)                 205.177ms asymm 20
> 11:  12.122.19.41 (12.122.19.41)                          203.850ms asymm 19
> 12:  cr1.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.3.122)                  204.838ms asymm 18
> 13:  cr2.phmaz.ip.att.net (12.122.31.190)                 205.038ms asymm 17
> 14:  tbr2.phmaz.ip.att.net (12.122.22.206)                205.099ms asymm 16
> 15:  gar3.phmaz.ip.att.net (12.123.206.29)                204.302ms asymm 14
> 16:  12.122.255.18 (12.122.255.18)                        204.990ms asymm 15
> 17:  mdf1-bi8k-2-eth-2-2.phx1.attens.net (63.241.128.186) 224.508ms asymm 16
> 18:  no reply
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>      Too many hops: pmtu 1492
>      Resume: pmtu 1492
>
> Hop 17 ( 63.241.128.186 ) is in San Diego California.  A bunch of
> these IP address are run by AT&T in NJ.
>
> I have learned that more and more of the blocked sites are not due to
> the Great Firewall, but are blocked by US ISPs and site admins who
> block all requests from China.
>
> I can reach:
> http://fedoraproject.org/
> without any problems.
>
> I eventually started using a proxy which made my requests appear to
> come from a US based IP address, and then yum worked perfectly.
>
> Can anyone provide some insights into what is happening?
>
>   
Not from your end....

But, I can tell you that I can get to

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f9.newkey&arch=x86_64

and tracepath is very similar to yours.  So, the tracepath is not a
valid indicator of why you can't get to that URL.


-- 
One does not thank logic. -- Sarek, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.4

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