Re: Alternatives to ftp.debian.org
Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By hand I run the list of mirrors (http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors) thru netselect to get the best one for the machine I'm on, then stick that in sources.list. I tried that, I got a mirror with a low ping, low round trip and good response, but it did not have the highest level of bandwidth of the mirrors. Netselect does not measure bandwidth, which is the thing I am most interested in when picking a mirror. It says in the README file for netselect that the author knows about this, and might try and steal some code from bing to implement this. -- Don't worry -- shop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternatives to ftp.debian.org
Dale Scheetz wrote: Is there any better way to pick a useful ftp site for upgrading? Automatically or by hand? By hand I run the list of mirrors (http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors) thru netselect to get the best one for the machine I'm on, then stick that in sources.list. HTH, -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alternatives to ftp.debian.org
With all that is going on with ftp.debian.org, I just tried to check there for alternative mirror sites and it's gone bye-bye. So, I checked the web page, but the only primary site listed is ftp.debian.org. The secondary sites are said to have restrictions, but just what those are for any given server aren't clear. I've reset sources.list on my sparc to point to http://us.debian.org, on the assumption that I can probably use that site effectively. Is there any better way to pick a useful ftp site for upgrading? Thanks, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian Linux User's Guide _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- See www.linuxpress.com for more details _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternatives to ftp.debian.org
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:39:24AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: Is there any better way to pick a useful ftp site for upgrading? Do you need a mirror to upgrade you system? What about using http? http.us.debian.org points to many mirrors. bye Christian -- Christian Surchi | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] FLUG: http://www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org - http://www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi -- There is nothing wrong with abstinence, in moderation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternatives to ftp.debian.org
On Thu, Sept 07, 2000 Christian Surchi wrote: Do you need a mirror to upgrade you system? What about using http? http.us.debian.org point to many mirrors. Funny you should mention this, as this is exactly the one I picked. My question was more about how to pick one. The documentation on the web pages indicates that these secondary mirrors have some restrictions, but don't detail them. This makes it hard to decide which ones might be suitable for my purposes, short of trying them out. This seems to be working ok, although I was a bit disapointed that the Packages files needed to be re-fetched. I guess the date time stamp didn't match? BTW, I'm sending this message without a mailer, so I appologize if I didn't get the headers right... Thanks for the feedback, Dwarf -- no sig on sparc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
