Hi Nicolas, this isn't intentional of course. Let me see what I can dig up based in your traces.
--Brian (mobile) On Jul 7, 2012, at 11:45 PM, Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote: > (I am not subscribed, so please CC me on any responses) > > I live in China. I normally have a VPN enabled to circumvent various > blocking (YouTube, Twitter, ++) that the Chinese government has in > place. I normally don't think much about it. But, today I had my > computer rebooted and couldn't build a project, because Maven Central > couldn't be reached. > > So, before I realized that my VPN wasn't running I tracerouted a bit. > > repo1 resolved to > > niclas:~ niclas$ dig repo1.maven.org | grep "^[a-z]" > repo1.maven.org. 1751 IN CNAME central.maven.org. > central.maven.org. 212 IN CNAME central02.maven.org. > central02.maven.org. 7112 IN CNAME wpc.829D.edgecastcdn.net. > wpc.829D.edgecastcdn.net. 3164 IN CNAME gs1.wpc.edgecastcdn.net. > gs1.wpc.edgecastcdn.net. 2292 IN A 68.232.45.253 > > and from that I also tried central01 > > niclas:~ niclas$ dig central01.maven.org | grep "^[a-z]" > central01.maven.org. 6477 IN CNAME > central01.maven.org.edgesuite.net. > central01.maven.org.edgesuite.net. 20877 IN CNAME a978.g1.akamai.net. > a978.g1.akamai.net. 4 IN A 124.40.42.31 > a978.g1.akamai.net. 4 IN A 124.40.42.6 > > And with tracerouting both (see below), it struck me that VPN might > not be enabled and the IP on "edgecastcdn.net" is probably blocked by > China potentially serving something they don't like, could be > anything... Yeah, China is BAD, we all know that, but shouldn't we > (Apache) try to minimize the problem for your ordinary Chinese > developer, could be a student, hobbyist, small entrepreneur and so on, > who isn't anti-government (most people here are quite content with the > government) to be able to use Apache projects? > > The fact is now, that without reasonably reliable access to Maven > Central, one can not really participate in many, many of the Java > projects at ASF. > > I don't know how the DNS and host resolution is supposed to work, who > is participating in the hosting and under what terms. But I think > Maven/Sonatype should have in its interest to NOT EXCLUDE some > staggering amount of Java programmers, and perhaps try to find a way > to get a better SLA here. If you need help from someone to check "from > the inside the Great Firewall", just let me know... > > > Cheers > Niclas > > > traceroute to gs1.wpc.edgecastcdn.net (68.232.45.253), 64 hops max, 52 > byte packets > 1 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 1.446 ms 0.980 ms 0.900 ms > 2 58.246.152.1 (58.246.152.1) 9.855 ms 11.724 ms 8.662 ms > 3 210.22.67.29 (210.22.67.29) 9.563 ms 3.698 ms 1.712 ms > 4 112.64.251.165 (112.64.251.165) 1.696 ms 1.819 ms 3.215 ms > 5 * * * > 6 * * * > 7 * * * > 8 * * * > 9 * * * > 10 * * * > 11 * * * > 12 * * * > 13 * * * > 14 * * * > 15 * * * > 16 * * * > 17 * * * > > > niclas:qi4j-sdk niclas$ traceroute central01.maven.org > traceroute: Warning: central01.maven.org has multiple addresses; using > 209.107.203.19 > traceroute to a978.g1.akamai.net (209.107.203.19), 64 hops max, 52 byte > packets > 1 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 1.681 ms 0.910 ms 0.889 ms > 2 58.246.152.1 (58.246.152.1) 14.958 ms 14.339 ms 115.382 ms > 3 112.64.251.133 (112.64.251.133) 3.516 ms 2.892 ms 1.682 ms > 4 112.64.251.165 (112.64.251.165) 2.117 ms 1.934 ms 1.926 ms > 5 112.64.243.170 (112.64.243.170) 3.859 ms 8.432 ms 4.110 ms > 6 * * * > 7 219.158.9.209 (219.158.9.209) 4.284 ms 3.517 ms 6.284 ms > 8 219.158.100.194 (219.158.100.194) 32.392 ms 34.428 ms 32.079 ms > 9 219.158.96.230 (219.158.96.230) 33.214 ms 33.501 ms 33.470 ms > 10 219.158.96.222 (219.158.96.222) 31.660 ms 31.564 ms 33.370 ms > 11 sl-st30-sj-0-4-3-3.sprintlink.net (144.228.111.29) 214.116 ms > 466.648 ms 503.740 ms > 12 sl-st31-sj-0-12-0-3.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.33) 180.679 ms > sl-st31-sj-0-8-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.29) 214.923 ms 231.186 ms > 13 144.232.8.194 (144.232.8.194) 522.103 ms 381.628 ms 221.618 ms > 14 te0-0-0-3.ccr22.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.109) 219.036 ms > te0-3-0-3.ccr22.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.101) 184.460 ms > te0-1-0-0.ccr21.sjc03.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.53) 305.247 ms > 15 te0-3-0-2.ccr22.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.149) 614.732 ms > te0-1-0-0.ccr21.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.83.253) 216.883 ms > te0-1-0-3.ccr21.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.237) 450.823 ms > 16 te9-3.ccr02.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.82.154) 662.795 ms > 154.54.85.25 (154.54.85.25) 189.819 ms > te7-8.ccr02.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.198) 888.842 ms > 17 te4-1.mpd01.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.28.69) 693.184 ms > te9-6.mpd01.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.82.150) 190.542 ms * > 18 38.104.84.130 (38.104.84.130) 781.037 ms > 38.104.84.126 (38.104.84.126) 425.045 ms > 38.104.84.130 (38.104.84.130) 643.349 ms > 19 te8-2-3580.bbr1.lax1.bandcon.com (69.16.190.214) 189.074 ms > 189.148 ms 193.641 ms > 20 209.107.203.19 (209.107.203.19) 629.087 ms 412.329 ms 225.912 ms > > -- > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java > > I live here; http://tinyurl.com/3xugrbk > I work here; http://tinyurl.com/6a2pl4j > I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
