[SAC] Slow connection to osgeo6.osgeo.osuosl.org

[Markus Neteler]

Hi,

at time OSGeo is only slowly to reach from Europe (and Asia):

ping grass.osgeo.org
PING grass.osgeo.org (140.211.15.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from osgeo6.osgeo.osuosl.org (140.211.15.3): icmp_seq=1
ttl=54 time=394 ms
64 bytes from osgeo6.osgeo.osuosl.org (140.211.15.3): icmp_seq=2
ttl=54 time=567 ms
64 bytes from osgeo6.osgeo.osuosl.org (140.211.15.3): icmp_seq=3
ttl=54 time=1064 ms
64 bytes from osgeo6.osgeo.osuosl.org (140.211.15.3): icmp_seq=4
ttl=54 time=1005 ms
64 bytes from osgeo6.osgeo.osuosl.org (140.211.15.3): icmp_seq=5
ttl=54 time=1005 ms

Check graphically:
https://www.monitis.com/traceroute/index.jsp?url=grass.osgeo.org&testId=2595275

traceroute grass.osgeo.org
traceroute to grass.osgeo.org (140.211.15.3), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  local (192.168.178.1)  3.346 ms  10.281 ms  10.127 ms
 2  192.0.0.1 (192.0.0.1)  10.453 ms  11.255 ms  13.466 ms
 3  62.214.39.53 (62.214.39.53)  13.467 ms  13.451 ms  13.437 ms
 4  62.214.37.110 (62.214.37.110)  15.277 ms  15.276 ms 62.214.37.106
(62.214.37.106)  15.182 ms
 5  9-2-2.ear3.Amsterdam1.Level3.net (213.19.194.25)  20.380 ms
21.105 ms  21.028 ms
 6  ae-1-11.bear1.Sacramento1.Level3.net (4.69.140.161)  163.711 ms
156.580 ms  156.517 ms
 7  UNIVERSITY.bear1.Sacramento1.Level3.net (4.53.200.2)  166.173 ms
165.466 ms  168.191 ms
 8  eugn-p1-gw.nero.net (207.98.64.192)  176.229 ms  175.825 ms  176.136 ms
 9  corv-p2-gw.nero.net (207.98.64.13)  173.471 ms  174.994 ms  171.777 ms
10  corv-car1-gw.nero.net (207.98.64.19)  166.416 ms  166.457 ms  168.112 ms
11  osgeo6.osgeo.osuosl.org (140.211.15.3)  167.001 ms  249.979 ms  249.152 ms

--> the NERO connection seems to be the problem.

Does anyone have insights here about the reason?

thanks
Markus