MacPorts rsync server in Germany - is this the current "normal"?

[Kennedy, Smith (Wireless Architect)]

Hi there,

Recently, say within the last week or so, when running a "sudo port -v selfupdate" as part of my care and feeding of my ports, I observed that it is pulling from a server in Germany:


Neuromancer: 2016-08 [932]$ sudo port -v selfupdate
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync

Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de.
Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar.

Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de.
Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.


receiving file list ... done

sent 16 bytes  received 55 bytes  28.40 bytes/sec
total size is 27013120  speedup is 380466.48

Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de.
Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar.

Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de.
Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.


receiving file list ... done

... and so forth ...


Is this consistent with others' recent experiences? Anything to be concerned about?

Thanks for your help,

Smith

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