Disable yandex mirror for requests from Ukraine

[AZ8]

Requests to yandex blocked by most providers in Ukraine. So, apt failed to pull new updates when roundrobin returns yandex as a mirror

[going]

You can manually edit the source list file and specify there the mirror closest to your location or the best in speed.

In this case, apt will pull updates only from this mirror.

The list of mirrors for Debian and Ubuntu is published.

[Igor]

16 hours ago, AZ8 said:

Requests to yandex blocked by most providers in Ukraine.

 

OMG  We have one mirror in Ukraine. Is that blocked in Russia?

 

16 hours ago, AZ8 said:

when roundrobin returns yandex as a mirror

Here is the code. I have asked author to check what would best to deal with such exceptions that we resolve this problem at server side and users don't need to tackle this. Adding some sort of "international-relations.db " ?

[lanefu]

The quickest fix for the user will be to use armbian-config to select a mirror.

 

The redirector dev may be able to add some exceptions but geoiop data will never be 100% accurate 

[TheLinuxBug]

I have disabled Yandex mirror for now for APT repo, it will still be enabled for Downloads, etc but until we know it is stable again there are plenty of mirrors to be used other than it.

 

Hopefully that solves this issue for now.

 

Cheers!

[going]

23.09.2022 в 17:10, TheLinuxBug сказал:

Hopefully that solves this issue for now.

No! The problem is on the side of the provider of another country!

And it should be solved in a different way.

There are no problems with the Yandex service.

[going]

23.09.2022 в 11:06, Igor сказал:

We have one mirror in Ukraine. Is that blocked in Russia?

No! These are some popular services in Russia that are blocked in some other countries for users who try to reach them.
Conversely, I have no problems getting through to anywhere in the world.

[Igor]

apt service was disabled temporally until some solution is implemented in re-director service. This way people, which might be blocked, doesn't have troubles, while main download remain unchanged - manual selection of another mirror. IMO this is good solution for now.

 

[Voha]

23.09.2022 в 13:57, lanefu сказал:

armbian-config to select a mirror

I have the same problem. Its the solution?

[Roman Khudobei]

Hi, I am facing the same issue. I am from Ukraine and our government blocked russian services for reasonable reason.
I've read, that one of the sources redirecting me to this blocked mirror and I couldn't do anything with it on my side. Is it true?
How can I fix it?

 

user@rockpi-4b:~$ sudo apt update && apt install -yq --no-install-recommends gcc         libgirepository1.0-dev         python3.6 python3-setuptools python3-pip python3-openssl python3.6-dev         python-gi python-gobject-2 python-gi-cairo python3-gi python3-gi-cairo         gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-nm-1.0         librsvg2-dev libglib2.0-dev         openssh-server         net-tools         musl-dev         ttf-dejavu         adwaita-icon-theme         dbus-x11         x11-xserver-utils xinit xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-legacy xserver-xorg-input-libinput         xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xterm         libgtk-3-dev libgtk2.0-0 libgles2-mesa-dev libnss3 libxss1 libxtst6 libgconf-2-4 xfonts-base qemu-user-static         network-manager-gnome         alsa-utils         pulseaudio         xvfb         chromium-browser         xdotool         v4l-utils         portaudio19-dev         python3.6-distutils         cmake         xdg-utils         netcat
Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy InRelease
Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-security InRelease                                                      
Hit:3 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu jammy InRelease                                
Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-updates InRelease                            
Hit:5 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-backports InRelease
Get:6 http://mirror.yandex.ru/mirrors/armbian/apt jammy InRelease [2,294 B]
Err:6 http://mirror.yandex.ru/mirrors/armbian/apt jammy InRelease
  Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NOSPLIT' (does the network require authentication?)
Reading package lists... Done        
E: Failed to fetch http://apt.armbian.com/dists/jammy/InRelease  Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NOSPLIT' (does the network require authentication?)
E: The repository 'http://apt.armbian.com jammy InRelease' is no longer signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

 

Edited January 10, 2023 by Roman Khudobei
hiding sensitive info; providing more information; improve explanation;

[Werner]

Well you cannot tell Armbian's redirector to choose a different mirror. However you can adjust the sources.list by hand and add a (packages) mirror that you like from this list manually:

https://github.com/armbian/mirror

[Roman Khudobei]

I was able to fix the issue with the help of this topic, in case anyone searching

I am also experiencing problems surfing Armbian website here. I tried to look for Rock Pi 4 B images and also for the archive. It also redirected me to "mirror.yandex.ru". Today I could access these pages, because I was redirected to  another source.

Edited January 12, 2023 by Roman Khudobei

[alexondi]

/etc/hosts

...

 192.168.0.254 mirror.yandex.ru

...

 

[alexondi]

Temporary solution:

In file /share/python-apt/templates/Ubuntu.mirrors  delete lines after #LOC:RU

Edited February 20, 2023 by alexondi

[hex_messer]

my "5 cents"...

correct way, as it was noticed already, to choose region in apt sources file, like in this forum post

and corresponding docs page

https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Fine-Tuning/#choosing-an-apt-mirror

 

 

And about armbian-config... For now, 08 feb 2024, image Armbian_23.11.1_Uefi-x86_bookworm_current_6.1.63_xfce_desktop.img
armbian-config in my case shows only one line in mirrors selection list: "0 - Automated"
This is because for now url http://apt.armbian.com/regions is defunct, and, consequently, in armbian-config code in file /usr/lib/armbian-config/jobs.sh
 part of code for acquiring mirrors can be (temporarily) corrected like this:

.......
        "Mirrors")

                # Default automated mirror
                url="http://apt.armbian.com"
                LIST=( "0" "Automated" )
                mirrors=( "${url}" )

                ## Mirrors for each region
                #for region in $(wget -qO- "${url}/regions" | jq -r '.[]' | sort | grep -v default); do
                #       LIST+=( "${#mirrors[@]}" "Region ${region}" )
                #       mirrors+=( "${url}/region/${region}/" )
                #done

                # Individual mirrors
                for mirror in $(wget -qO- "${url}/mirrors" | jq -r '.[] | .[]' | sort | uniq); do
                        LIST+=( "${#mirrors[@]}" "${mirror}" )
                        mirrors+=( "${mirror}" )
                done
......

this way mirrors extracted from http://apt.armbian.com/mirrors and displayed correctly.

Edited February 8 by hex_messer

[hex_messer]

oh, I figured out, how it should be coded to select regions :

 

               # Mirrors for each region
               for region in $(wget -qO- "${url}/mirrors" | jq -r 'keys' | jq -r '.[]' | sort | grep -v default); do
                       LIST+=( "${#mirrors[@]}" "Region ${region}" )
                       mirrors+=( "${url}/region/${region}/" )
               done

 

And now it looks like this in armbian-config:
 

 Configuration utility, Armbian 23.11.1 stable, 10.0.2.15
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
         ┌──────────────────── Select APT mirror ──────────────────────┐
         │ Select mirror                                               │  
         │ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │  
         │ │   0   Automated                                         │ │  
         │ │   1   Region AS                                         │ │  
         │ │   2   Region EU                                         │ │  
         │ │   3   Region NA                                         │ │  
         │ │   4   Region OC                                         │ │  
         │ │   5   http://armbian.chi.auroradev.org/apt/             │ │  
         │ │   6   http://armbian.hosthatch.com/apt/                 │ │  
         │ │   7   http://armbian.lv.auroradev.org/apt/              │ │  
         │ │   8   http://armbian.systemonachip.net/apt/             │ │  
         │ │   9   http://armbian.tnahosting.net/apt/                │ │  
         │ │   10  http://au.sbcmirror.org/armbian/apt/              │ │  
         │ │   11  http://fastmirror.pp.ua/armbian/                  │ │  
         │ └────↓(+)─────────────────────────────────────────30%─────┘ │  
         ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤  
         │                 <  OK  >         <Cancel>                   │  
         └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘  

 

I hope, this should be posted somewhere to be corrected in mainstream code, how and where to do it?

[SteeMan]

@hex_messer submit a PR.  https://docs.armbian.com/Process_Contribute

[Igor]

I have also disabled both mirrors from rotation until we develop & implement a proper solution to our router.