la.mxrepo connecting via osuosl.org ??

[Member stevesr0]

I just performed a daily update/full-upgrade.

My repos are at la.mxrepo and at debian.org.

I was taken aback when I saw at the bottom of the screen “connecting to ftp-chi.osuosl.org” followed by what looks like an IP6 address.

However, the packages appeared to be coming from the correct repositories.

I assume(??) that the ftpchi site is a middleman and it is ok? I know that that site is also a listed repository.

stevesr0

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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post your sources

but that is a debian mirror.

• This reply was modified 7 months, 4 weeks ago by dolphin_oracle.

[Member stevesr0]

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Hi dolphin_oracle,

Thanks for reply.

I have seen this message on only one occasion. Have not seen any evidence that this was some kind of malware.

Yes, I checked that the osuosl site is another antiX repository site.

I have abstracted the active repositories and sites below.

List of active repositories

antix.list
deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/sid sid main nosystemd nonfree

antix.list.dpkg-old
deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/sid/ sid nonfree nosystemd main

debian.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

debian.list.dpkg-old
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable non-free contrib main

Other sites WITHOUT ACTIVE REPOSITORIES       

various.list

various.list.dpkg-dist
      
onion.list

onion.list.dpkg-old

debian-stable-updates.list  

bullseye-backports.list

Appreciate your thoughts, although it seems to be harmless. I thought someone else might have had similar experiences.

stevesr0

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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I suspect that it was the references to the US site that caused the updates from osuosl.

That’s bringing in packages from Debian…

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[Member stevesr0]

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Hi Brian Masinick,

Brian wrote,
"I suspect that it was the references to the US site that caused the updates from osuosl.

That’s bringing in packages from Debian…

I don’t understand the comment. The default debian.list repo is the one I (and I assume most people) used. Please explain why that would cause updates to come from osuosl, when I am connecting thru http://ftp.us.debian.org ?

Thanks.

stevesr0

P.S. Again, since this didn’t impact on getting the upgrade, it isn’t obviously of practical importance for me to understand<g>. Just curious.

stevesr0

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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stevesr0 wrote:

Hi Brian Masinick,

Brian wrote,
"I suspect that it was the references to the US site that caused the updates from osuosl.

That’s bringing in packages from Debian…

I don’t understand the comment. The default debian.list repo is the one I (and I assume most people) used. Please explain why that would cause updates to come from osuosl, when I am connecting thru http://ftp.us.debian.org ?

Thanks.

stevesr0

P.S. Again, since this didn’t impact on getting the upgrade, it isn’t obviously of practical importance for me to understand<g>. Just curious.

stevesr0

The reason is that http://ftp.us.debian.org actually points to:

sudo ping ftp.us.debian.org
PING ftp.us.debian.org (64.50.236.52) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ftp-chi.osuosl.org (64.50.236.52): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=29.7 ms
64 bytes from ftp-chi.osuosl.org (64.50.236.52): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=31.2 ms

sudo ping ftp.ca.debian.org
PING ftp.ca.debian.org (207.210.46.249) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from mirror3.rafal.ca (207.210.46.249): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=26.8 ms
64 bytes from mirror3.rafal.ca (207.210.46.249): icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=30.4 ms

These two – US and CA, point to specific sites.

A third test shows a similar result, so there’s a consistent pattern:

sudo ping ftp.de.debian.org
PING ftp.de.debian.org (141.76.2.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from debian.inf.tu-dresden.de (141.76.2.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=205 ms
64 bytes from debian.inf.tu-dresden.de (141.76.2.4): icmp_seq=2 ttl=47 time=228 ms

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[Member stevesr0]

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Hi Brian M,

Thanks for response. I never thought of pinging!

Just now, when I ping the http://ftp.us.debian.org site, I get

64 bytes from ftp-nyc.osuosl.org (64.50.233.100)

So osuosl.org has different physical locations. I wonder how that is setup. If I stay curious enough, I will seek to find out <g>.

But, it is nice to know that it is “normal” for the http://ftp.xx.debian.org sites.

Hope your health issues resolve.

stevesr0

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Thanks for the wishes; I’m nearly complete with the medicine portion of the health protocol and I’m feeling better, but I won’t be given a “clean bill of health from the perspective of our senior community until the middle of next week; that’s when they perform regular testing. I’ll be past the one week time period on Monday and I’m already feeling 90% better.

Regarding the http://ftp.us.debian.org site, thanks for the update on the locations. The sites they choose are fine; should you choose other sites, I can tell you that the csail mit site has been good for me over the years; the princeton site, gatech, and mirrors.rit.edu have been good too. So if any of them act up temporarily, those are some good alternatives; it’s rare that they’re down, and EXTREMELY rare that more than one is acting up at the same time.

BTW, I’m hacking away at scripts now; I’ve saved my .bashrc, some clock scripts and programs, and a couple of IceWM config files; I’m still experimenting with the IceWM configurations.

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