[CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Linux Advocate
guys, i have the yum plugin -> fastest mirror . But not even once i have seen it selecting repos which are near my region such as japan or australia ( where i get the best speeds). Something is wrong. It seems stuck with these 3 sites ; Determining fastest mirrors * ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de :

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Linux Advocate
i have tried yum clean all , yum clean metadata - Original Message > From: Linux Advocate > To: CentOS mailing list > Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 8:56:37 PM > Subject: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region > > guys, i h

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Oliver Ransom
On 22/08/2009, at 10:37 PM, Linux Advocate wrote: > i have tried yum clean all , yum clean metadata > > > > - Original Message >> From: Linux Advocate >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 8:56:37 PM >> Subject: [CentO

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Linux Advocate
> Hi Linux Advocate, > > I have found this a problem for the Australian servers I manage as > well. I suggest you manually test the speed of some local mirrors then > manually specify a mirror rather than relying on the fastest mirror > plugin. > > If your ISP mirrors content locally then

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi! On 08/22/2009 01:56 PM, Linux Advocate wrote: > guys, i have the yum plugin -> fastest mirror . But not even once i have > seen it selecting repos which are near my region such as japan or australia ( > where i get the best speeds). Something is wrong. There are a few different things that

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread John R Pierce
fwiw, it appears "linux advocate" is sending his email from a Malaysia IP per the email headres... $ whois 60.50.xxx.yyy [Querying whois.apnic.net] [whois.apnic.net] % [whois.apnic.net node-2] % Whois data copyright termshttp://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html inetnum: 60.48.0.0 - 60

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Oliver Ransom
On 22/08/2009, at 11:02 PM, Linux Advocate wrote: > >> Hi Linux Advocate, >> >> I have found this a problem for the Australian servers I manage as >> well. I suggest you manually test the speed of some local mirrors >> then >> manually specify a mirror rather than relying on the fastest mirror

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Johnny Hughes
John R Pierce wrote: > fwiw, it appears "linux advocate" is sending his email from a Malaysia > IP per the email headres... > > $ whois 60.50.xxx.yyy > [Querying whois.apnic.net] > [whois.apnic.net] > % [whois.apnic.net node-2] > % Whois data copyright termshttp://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread tech
Johnny Hughes wrote: > What I get is unknown (with our current version). When unknown, it > passes a list of high bandwidth machines. > > I will get and build a newer version of the GeoIP database and see if I > can get a better result. I reported a problem like this much earlier. I am in Hong

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Johnny Hughes
tech wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> What I get is unknown (with our current version). When unknown, it >> passes a list of high bandwidth machines. >> >> I will get and build a newer version of the GeoIP database and see if I >> can get a better result. > > I reported a problem like this muc

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-23 Thread Linux Advocate
> > inetnum: 60.48.0.0 - 60.54.255.255 > netname: XDSLSTREAMYX > descr:Telekom Malaysia Berhad > descr:Network Strategy > descr:Wisma Telekom > descr:Jalan Pantai Baru > descr:50672 Kuala Lumpur > country: MY > > . > > A couple differe

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-23 Thread Linux Advocate
> John R Pierce wrote: > > fwiw, it appears "linux advocate" is sending his email from a Malaysia > > IP per the email headres... > > > > $ whois 60.50.xxx.yyy > > [Querying whois.apnic.net] > > [whois.apnic.net] > > % [whois.apnic.net node-2] > > % Whois data copyright termshttp://www.apnic

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
> > > #mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os > > baseurl=ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ > > gpgcheck=1 > > gpgkey=ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 > > > > Regards, > > Oliver > > I h

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
> > If you take a look in /etc/yum.repos.d/ you will see a number of > files. There should be example baseurl lines in the repo files which > will be commented out by default. Here's an example of how I use this > to manually use my local ISPs mirror for the base repo: > > [base] > name=Ce

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
> > > > > > my repos are configured to use mirrorlist. how do i add mirrors > > manually? > > > > If you take a look in /etc/yum.repos.d/ you will see a number of > files. There should be example baseurl lines in the repo files which > will be commented out by default. Here's an example of

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Oliver Ransom
On 24/08/2009, at 7:06 PM, Linux Advocate wrote: > >>> >>> >>> my repos are configured to use mirrorlist. how do i add mirrors >>> manually? >>> >> >> If you take a look in /etc/yum.repos.d/ you will see a number of >> files. There should be example baseurl lines in the repo files which >> will b

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
> #mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os > >> baseurl=ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ > >> gpgcheck=1 > >> gpgkey=ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 > >> > >> Regards, > >> Oliver > > > >

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
Linux Advocate wrote: >> John R Pierce wrote: >>> fwiw, it appears "linux advocate" is sending his email from a Malaysia >>> IP per the email headres... >>> >>> $ whois 60.50.xxx.yyy >>> [Querying whois.apnic.net] >>> [whois.apnic.net] >>> % [whois.apnic.net node-2] >>> % Whois data copyright term

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
> > I maintain the RPM that is used as part of CentOS Extras and that we use > on the CentOS servers in question. > > I did some major work on the app that CentOS uses for mirrorlists and > isolists over the weekend. Especially in the AP region, as we have > picked up some mirrors there recentl

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread John R Pierce
Linux Advocate wrote: > johny, thanx for the link. > > i think 'my' should point to jp, cn, tw, au,sg. the setup u have there is > ;) > do all ISP's in .MY use the same peering/trunking or do different providers have different sorts of international backbone connections? __

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-25 Thread Linux Advocate
my region > > Linux Advocate wrote: > > johny, thanx for the link. > > > > i think 'my' should point to jp, cn, tw, au,sg. the setup u have there is > > > ;) > > > > do all ISP's in .MY use the same peering/trunking or do different > providers have different sorts of international bac