DE and ES default mirror (UA) broken

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Hi!

I was doing an upgrade today from 42 → 43, and my systems (in Switzerland) kept failing to pull packages from https://fedora.ip-connect.vn.ua, even when I set the country=DE or country=ES, it keept giving me that mirror in Ukraine:

dcaro@hephaestus$ curl 'https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f43&arch=x86_64&country=ES' | grep location
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  3037  100  3037    0     0  30799      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 30989
    <url protocol="https" type="https" location="UA" preference="100">https://fedora.ip-connect.vn.ua/linux/updates/43/Everything/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
    <url protocol="rsync" type="rsync" location="UA" preference="100">rsync://fedora.ip-connect.vn.ua/fedora/linux/updates/43/Everything/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
    <url protocol="http" type="http" location="UA" preference="100">http://fedora.ip-connect.vn.ua/linux/updates/43/Everything/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml</url>

From the non-country url I only get UA from europe:

dcaro@hephaestus$ curl 'https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f43&arch=x86_64' | grep -oe 'location=[^ ]*' | sort | uniq -c | sort
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  6798  100  6798    0     0  70746      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 71557
      2 location="KR"
      3 location="CA"
      3 location="JP"
      3 location="TW"
      3 location="UA"
      6 location="CN"
      6 location="US"

I’m not using a VPN or anything similar.

I had to change it to Japan for it to be able to upgrade, is there any way to get other european mirrors instead?

Thanks!

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2

Same for me in GB.

3

Is someone messing with BGPs?

Someone on Matrix from Poland had same problem and solved with

sudo nano /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
Add:
max_parallel_downloads=10
FastestMirror=true
Save, exit, sudo dnf clean all && sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf update -y

4

same from France :

curl 'https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f43&arch=x86_64&country=FR' | grep location
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  3037  100  3037    0     0  10373      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 10400
    <url protocol="https" type="https" location="UA" preference="100">https://fedora.ip-connect.vn.ua/linux/updates/43/Everything/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
    <url protocol="rsync" type="rsync" location="UA" preference="100">rsync://fedora.ip-connect.vn.ua/fedora/linux/updates/43/Everything/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
    <url protocol="http" type="http" location="UA" preference="100">http://fedora.ip-connect.vn.ua/linux/updates/43/Everything/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml</url>

the workaround suggested by @theprogram seems to improve a little bit, but not totally solved

5

I think it is strange that all of Europe and GB is being redirected to UA - what does infrastructure think?

6

FWIW I’m experiencing a lot of slowness on the internet generally today, so it may be something broader than just Fedora infra.

7

For sure, it looks like some different internet wide routing is going on.
Just the weather :slight_smile:

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