[gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?
I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific mirror (again first time). it's not portage! it's rsync!!! execute rsync rsync.gentoo.org:: for a few times. I always see the banner message of owl.gentoo.org, and no other. That is STRANGE! i think it's not strange at all. i'm sure rsync uses mechanisms to find the closest server, and it's no surprise that this would be the same all the time, and different from the point of view of different networks. Then, rsync behaves kind of stupid, because if rsync always uses the same server, and the server doesn't work, then the sync will not work. But rsync could chose a different server, well, the second-best server, if the best server has failed. But it didn't do that :-( Well, but any discussion about that would be off-topic. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:50:14 +0100, Sven Köhler wrote: execute rsync rsync.gentoo.org:: for a few times. I always see the banner message of owl.gentoo.org, and no other. That is STRANGE! The resolver is caching the result of looking up rsync.gentoo.org. Until that expires, which depends on the TTL setting on the DNS server, you will always get the same IP address for rsync.gentoo.org. -- Neil Bothwick Captain, I believe there's an energy source in the liver of the cloud. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?
I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific mirror (again first time). it's not portage! it's rsync!!! execute rsync rsync.gentoo.org:: for a few times. I always see the banner message of owl.gentoo.org, and no other. That is STRANGE! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:50:14 +0100 Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific mirror (again first time). it's not portage! it's rsync!!! execute rsync rsync.gentoo.org:: for a few times. I always see the banner message of owl.gentoo.org, and no other. That is STRANGE! i think it's not strange at all. i'm sure rsync uses mechanisms to find the closest server, and it's no surprise that this would be the same all the time, and different from the point of view of different networks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
