mirror.symnds.com has debian/ubuntu and is in Ashburn on Above.net FYI. On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 01:51:31PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
there's also the unfortunate case of: "My traffic to the selected mirror is over the 'expensive' transit port, why can't I use my SFP's mirror over there on the left?"
setting the mirror to a specific one means some fragility, but determinism is nice.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Robert Drake <rdrake@direcpath.com> wrote:
On 10/7/2013 11:16 AM, Michael Shuler wrote:
Ubuntu != Debian
http://askubuntu.com/questions/157840/why-does-apt-get-fail-to-resolve-the-m...
Apparently mirrors.ubuntu.com picks a mirror based on geographical location using lines like this:
|deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise main restricted universe multiverse deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-backports main restricted universe multiverse deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-security main restricted universe multiverse
I'm not sure how good it is at picking a mirror though. ubuntu seems to make a mess of the sources.list file and makes it scary to change. I always leave it with the mirror I chose during install.
This: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SourcesList
Says you can pick "Select Best Server" from a menu. That would probably work okay if it's not a headless box. |
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