apt-mirror near ashburn

Mon Oct 7 17:51:31 UTC 2013

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 at 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-mirror
>
> 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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>