From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14420 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Aug 2003 19:25:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 12304 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2003 19:25:08 -0000 From: Luke-Jr Organization: Gentoo Linux To: "Ralph F. De Witt" , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:25:00 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200308101159.16879.ralphdewitt@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <200308101159.16879.ralphdewitt@charter.net> GPG-Public-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="shift_jis" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308101925.07906.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff. X-Archives-Salt: f21a8282-bd78-40b9-97f9-8abd0305b805 X-Archives-Hash: a511503a8901451c8ffdc86c309fbd7e =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 IIRC, the new installation manual includes a step to run mirrorselect. As I= =20 see it, either they set towbit.net as default to encourage people to use=20 mirrorselect, or perhaps you ran mirrorselect and it (foolishly?) chose=20 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. =2D --=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/NpwPZl/BHdU+lYMRAno3AJ9FplvncyShgP6HUReRocW2xfELPgCfcgJk w7u8Hqszz5oWjRnuFlxbadw=3D =3D7d59 =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list