Bug 811429

Summary:	gitweb geodns resolves badly
Product:	Gentoo Infrastructure	Reporter:	Christian Schmidt <gentoo>
Component:	Git	Assignee:	Gentoo Infrastructure <infra-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christian Schmidt 2021-09-02 13:26:49 UTC

For Gentoo users in Europe, it seems that gitweb.gentoo.org primarily resolves like this:

[~]>host sources.gentoo.org
sources.gentoo.org is an alias for gitweb.gentoo.org.
gitweb.gentoo.org is an alias for gitweb.geodns.gentoo.org.
gitweb.geodns.gentoo.org is an alias for gitweb.geodns-europe.gentoo.org.
gitweb.geodns-europe.gentoo.org has address 85.143.112.91
gitweb.geodns-europe.gentoo.org has IPv6 address 2001:470:1f14:104f::2

This address is located in Moscow, Russia, sponsored by the National Research Nuclear University:

inetnum:        85.143.112.0 - 85.143.115.255
netname:        MEPHI
descr:          National Research Nuclear University 'MEPhI'
descr:          31 Kashirskoe shosse
descr:          115409 Moscow
country:        RU
org:            ORG-MIFI1-RIPE
admin-c:        MEFI-RIPE
tech-c:         MEFI-RIPE
status:         ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by:         RUNNET-MNT
created:        2015-03-04T09:48:28Z
last-modified:  2015-05-07T11:58:33Z

Due to the current geopolitical situation, this mirror might not be allowed from Western European networks. It seems that further mirrors are not available by name either, if they even exist.

As a resolution I think it would be good to have a list of manually selectable servers for this, to not have to resort to gitweb.geodns-americas.gentoo.org.

Comment 1 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2021-09-17 05:10:57 UTC

I can't tell if your objection is that your ISP will not route traffic to this host, or if the host (because its in Russia) will not route traffic to you.

One is a problem with your ISP (and I'd recommend finding a new one) and the latter (In reply to Christian Schmidt from comment #0)
> For Gentoo users in Europe, it seems that gitweb.gentoo.org primarily
> resolves like this:
> 
> [~]>host sources.gentoo.org
> sources.gentoo.org is an alias for gitweb.gentoo.org.
> gitweb.gentoo.org is an alias for gitweb.geodns.gentoo.org.
> gitweb.geodns.gentoo.org is an alias for gitweb.geodns-europe.gentoo.org.
> gitweb.geodns-europe.gentoo.org has address 85.143.112.91
> gitweb.geodns-europe.gentoo.org has IPv6 address 2001:470:1f14:104f::2
> 
> This address is located in Moscow, Russia, sponsored by the National
> Research Nuclear University:
> 
> inetnum:        85.143.112.0 - 85.143.115.255
> netname:        MEPHI
> descr:          National Research Nuclear University 'MEPhI'
> descr:          31 Kashirskoe shosse
> descr:          115409 Moscow
> country:        RU
> org:            ORG-MIFI1-RIPE
> admin-c:        MEFI-RIPE
> tech-c:         MEFI-RIPE
> status:         ASSIGNED PA
> mnt-by:         RUNNET-MNT
> created:        2015-03-04T09:48:28Z
> last-modified:  2015-05-07T11:58:33Z
> 
> Due to the current geopolitical situation, this mirror might not be allowed
> from Western European networks. It seems that further mirrors are not
> available by name either, if they even exist.
> 
> As a resolution I think it would be good to have a list of manually
> selectable servers for this, to not have to resort to
> gitweb.geodns-americas.gentoo.org.

This is the only mirror we have right now, sorry. Feel free to use the American mirror in the meantime if this one is not working for you.

-A