Redirected to mirrors which are far from client computer

[Hinaser]

Redirected to mirrors which are far from client computer

[Hinaser]

I read lines of source code and found out that detailed information for redirection is included in http response header.
The information contains distance between client computer and redirecting computer calculated by longitude/latitude which also calculated by IP address for each computers.

The response header that describes wrong behavior from http://httpredir.debian.org/demo is as follows:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:15:48 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Link: <http://giano.com.dist.unige.it/debian/>; rel=duplicate; pri=13948; depth=0, <http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/>; rel=duplicate; pri=13968; depth=0, <http://debian.ethz.ch/debian/>; rel=duplicate; pri=14283; depth=0
X-AS: 4713
X-City: Setagaya
X-Closest-Distance: 139.4834
X-Continent: AS
X-Country: JP
X-Distance: 142.8334
X-IP: 61.126.xxx.xxx
X-Match-Type: nearby-continent
X-Population: 8
X-Region: 40
X-Std-Dev: 4.58363229328008
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: Keep-Alive

When requested the demo page again after tens of minutes, I got correct response from the server as follows:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:45:34 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Link: <http://debian-mirror.sakura.ne.jp/debian/>; rel=duplicate; pri=10; depth=0
X-AS: 4713
X-City: Setagaya
X-Closest-Distance: 0.0966999999999913
X-Continent: AS
X-Country: JP
X-Distance: 0.0966999999999913
X-IP: 61.126.xxx.xxx
X-Match-Type: country
X-Population: 1
X-Region: 40
X-Std-Dev: 0
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: Keep-Alive

Comparing X-Closest-Distance in correct/incorrect response header shows the difference.

[Hinaser]

Maybe I've found out root cause of this issue.

There are 2 servers representing httpredir.debian.org .

appuser@debian-8:~$ nslookup httpredir.debian.org
Server:         10.0.2.3
Address:        10.0.2.3#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   httpredir.debian.org
Address: 128.31.0.66
Name:   httpredir.debian.org
Address: 5.153.231.35

For the server whose ip is 5.153.231.35 always returns correct mirrors while the server of 128.31.0.66 always return incorrect mirrors.

I looked up those IP addresses in GeoIP and found that the server of 128.31.0.66 is managed by MIT.

IP	Country	Location	Organization	Domain
128.31.0.66	US	Cambridge, North America	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	mit.edu
5.153.231.35	GB	Great Britain, Europe	Bytemark Limited	debian.org

So I need to tell to the right persons that ./update.sh && ./build-main-db.pl should be run to update database of mirrors to the latest version.