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2015-08-03 5:58 GMT+03:00 d tbsky <[log in to unmask]>:
> 2015-08-03 2:39 GMT+08:00 Stephen John Smoogen <[log in to unmask]>:
>> On 2 August 2015 at 09:32, d tbsky <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> hi:
>>>    we notice some ip address can not access scientific linux servers
>>> (web or ftp). I don't know why. for example default sl7.repo list
>>> content below:
>>>
>>> baseurl=http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/$slreleasever/$basearch/os/
>>>
>>> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/$slreleasever/$basearch/os/
>>>
>>> http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/$slreleasever/$basearch/os/
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/$slreleasever/$basearch/os/
>>>
>>>
>>> but they resolve to only 1 ip address: 131.225.105.11
>>> so some of our servers can not get yum update working with the default
>>> configuration.
>>> this happen about a year ago. and it seems more and more ip are banned..
>>
>> You need to provide what ip address you are trying to reach the server
>> from for anyone to help on this.
>>
>> There could be two reasons for this:
>>
>> The Scientific Linux distribution is sponsored by a United States
>> Department of Energy National Lab, Fermi Laboratory. That does mean
>> that it has to abide by certain restrictions on what countries are
>> allowed to connect to the server (countries like North Korea and some
>> others).
>>
>> Various foreign governments block access to United States government
>> servers for various reasons at various times. This can cause problems
>> for other people if your access 'transits' that countries routers.
>>
>> Not much can be done about this other than trying to find a mirror
>> that is allowed access in the country and then pointing your
>> yum.repos.d/*.repo files to that mirror.
>>
>> --
>> Stephen J Smoogen.
>
>    thanks for the information. may I ask whom to contact so I can give
> him/her the ip addresses?
>    but since these ip may be blocked again in the future, I don't know
> if the default sl7.repo can list more repository other than
> "131.225.105.11"?
>    thanks again for kindly help!!
>
> Regards,
> tbskyd