List of SL mirrors: http://www.scientificlinux.org/downloads/sl-mirrors/ 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