* Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff.
@ 2003-08-10 15:32 99% ` Ralph F. De Witt
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From: Ralph F. De Witt @ 2003-08-10 15:32 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Corey Shields, gentoo-dev
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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Ralph
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