From: Corey Shields <cshields@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Cc: "Ralph F. De Witt" <ralphdewitt@charter.net>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff.
Date: 10 Aug 2003 16:29:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1060550943.1630.172.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030810195238.GA7761@cerberus.oppresses.us>
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On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 14:52, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> > IIRC, the new installation manual includes a step to run mirrorselect. As I
> > see it, either they set towbit.net as default to encourage people to use
> > mirrorselect, or perhaps you ran mirrorselect and it (foolishly?) chose
> > towbit.net as the "best" mirror.
> At one point (1.4rc3?) twobit was set as the default mirror by accident.
> Any recent stage shouldn't have that problem...
There is a somewhat new round robin DNS set for distfiles. Set the
first choice in your GENTOO_SOURCES to http://distfiles.gentoo.org/
The mirrors in this set are all high bandwidth mirrors. Any problems
please open up a bug to mirror-admin
Cheers!
--
Corey Shields - Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team
http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-10 11:59 [gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff Ralph F. De Witt
2003-08-10 19:25 ` Luke-Jr
2003-08-10 19:52 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-08-10 21:29 ` Corey Shields [this message]
2003-08-10 15:32 ` Ralph F. De Witt
[not found] ` <200308110117.16878.sn.ml@bayminer.com>
2003-08-10 22:24 ` Corey Shields
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