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Re: [lug-l] Mirror Question
I remember reading on the debian blog that http://www.debian.net was a
content-distribution mirror, such that the DNS would go to a close
server. However, I can't find that now. Anyway, www.us.debian.org is a
US DNS round-robin.
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 18:30 -0700, Erin Brandt wrote:
> Thanks, Josh! That was exactly the info I needed.
>
>
> Erin
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Josh Knight <jgknight@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Erin,
>
>
> Being on the west coast, you're right, the MTU LUG mirror
> probably isn't the fastest. There are larger mirrors like
> mirror.anl.gov that we simply can't compete with off-campus
> with our 100Mbit connection (they have a 10Gigabit network
> connection for IPv4 traffic!.) Even if/when we upgrade our
> network connection, we'll only have a few hundred Megabits to
> the Internet.
>
>
> If you're looking to speed things up, there are packages that
> will help you find the fastest debian mirror. Take a look at
> these links
>
>
> http://www.aboutlinux.info/2007/05/using-netselect-apt-tip-to-select.html
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> http://linuxg.net/how-to-find-and-select-the-fastest-mirror-on-debian-linux-operating-systems/
>
>
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> Basically the program will download the list of mirrors
> from http://www.debian.org/mirror/list and find the most
> available mirror, and build a sources.list file for you to
> use. I haven't used them personally but I'd say give them a
> shot.
>
>
> General note: I know Ubuntu has a feature that will find the
> fastest mirror, can't say if it's in Debian or not, it
> probably is. Also Fedora and CentOS by default use
> fastestmirror plugin to find the most available mirror.
>
>
> Hope this helps
>
>
>
>
>
> ---
> Josh Knight
> Undergraduate, Michigan Technological University
> Major, Computer Network & Systems Administration
> Minor, Electrical Engineering
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Erin Brandt
> <eebrandt@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi MTU LUG,
>
>
> I have what is probably a pretty basic question. I've
> been running Debian for about 9 years now, and I've
> always used the MTU repo mirrors because I've never
> had any trouble and they seem really reliable. Since
> I've moved to the west coast, I'm wondering if I
> should switch to a more local one. How is the time
> lag when trying to update across the country? Would
> it be worthwhile to switch?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Erin
>
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