apt-mirror near ashburn

Mon Oct 7 14:47:13 UTC 2013

My suggestion is to use http://http.debian.net/debian as your source.  
It uses geo thingie to figure out the closest mirror to you.

Code is on github if you're interested in how it works.
https://github.com/rgeissert/http-redirector

On 10/5/2013 11:11 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
>> {{{
>> $apt-get install libsm6
>> ...
>> After this operation, 717 kB of additional disk space will be used.
>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>> WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
>>    x11-common libice6 libsm6
>> Install these packages without verification [y/N]?
>> }}}
>>
>> hmmmmm.  ft meade can't even hack the checksums?
> possibly the mirror is just misbehaving :( it's been a while since i
> ran it, so I'm honestly not sure what's going on with it these days.
>
> -chris
>