[Catalog-sig] [Infrastructure] PyPi "D" host outage

[Antoine Pitrou]

Hello Jannis,

> So, I've made multiple attempts to fix the "d" mirror: I've been running
> the pep381client script manually and monitored it for 3 consecutive days.
> The simple problem seems to be a degraded connection to pypi.python.org.
> With a simple wget one of the bigger files (e.g.
> http://a.pypi.python.org/packages/source/M/MDAnalysisTests/MDAnalysisTests-0.7.6.tar.gz)
> I get 46 K/s (https://gist.github.com/bdebc7d3d55617c43d2b).
>
> Fetching the same file from *any* of the other mirrors results in ~10M/s.
> Has anything changed in the network configuration of the main PyPI that
> could cause this? Traffic shaping or the like?

There seem to be general connectivity issues with OSUOSL for some of us
(not only with PyPI, but other services such as hg.python.org). I believe
Noah and the OSUOSL team are still investigating.

Regards

Antoine.