Re: apt-mirror near ashburn

[Bryan Seitz <seitz () bsd-unix net>]

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-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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Bryan G. Seitz