[gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff.

[gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff.

[Ralph F. De Witt]

Hi all:
What is up with the change to mirrors.towbit.net for emerge downloads? I just 
did a fresh install of Gentoo and must have lost a full day doing the 
emerges. There were many times when emerge was unable to connect to 
mirrors.towbit.net, path not found/or connection timed out. Also the download 
speed was anywhere from 153 b/s to a blazing 8 k/s all of this with many 
pauses with the downloads. This is not good and agrivates the long compile 
times for a new install.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff.

[Luke-Jr]

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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.

On Sunday 10 August 2003 11:59 am, Ralph F. De Witt wrote:
> Hi all:
> What is up with the change to mirrors.towbit.net for emerge downloads? I
> just did a fresh install of Gentoo and must have lost a full day doing the
> emerges. There were many times when emerge was unable to connect to
> mirrors.towbit.net, path not found/or connection timed out. Also the
> download speed was anywhere from 153 b/s to a blazing 8 k/s all of this
> with many pauses with the downloads. This is not good and agrivates the
> long compile times for a new install.

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Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff.

[Jon Portnoy]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 07:25:00PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
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> 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...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff.

[Corey Shields]

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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!

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff.

[Ralph F. De Witt]

On Sunday 10 August 2003 09:29 pm, Corey Shields wrote:
> 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:
One question is GENTOO_SOURCES located in /etc/make.conf? If it is then it is 
not in the version that came with 1.4rc3 this one looks like the bottom half 
of the last section is missing compared to others I have seen. If it is not 
complete how do I get a more recent one? Thanks for your help.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff.

[Corey Shields]

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On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 17:17, Sami Näätänen wrote:
> > There is a somewhat new round robin DNS set for distfiles.  Set the
> > first choice in your GENTOO_SOURCES to http://distfiles.gentoo.org/
> 
> You mean GENTOO_MIRRORS  not GENTOO_SOURCES, right?

Yes, GENTOO_MIRRORS and not GENTOO_SOURCES.

my bad..  thanks for the correction
 
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