-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:07 pm, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Greg Madden: > > On Saturday 10 January 2004 04:04 pm, tripolar wrote: > > > Recently when doing apt-get update I get failures from > > > deb http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/debian/ unstable > > > main non-free contrib > > > I chose that mirror when I did the install because it is near. > > > How do I find other sources? Preferably a .edu in wisconsin, > > > minnesota or > > > > 'netselect-apt <Debian version>' will test a list of mirrors, and > > build an 'apt-sources.list' from the fastest ones it finds. These > > are not necessarily the ones geographically closest. > > Nor are they necessarily working. I did this this afternoon, found > ftp3.nrc.ca was the fastest non-US (from here), yet apt-get choked on > it whenever it tried to contact it. Fall back is non-us.debian.org > > > -- > Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. > (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling > - -
Lately the Non-US mirror I used has been not responding, its the Berkley CS one. Maybe Non-US is not longer relevnt :) - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAAOoPk7rtxKWZzGsRAkpCAKCxxcQ0yKxPl9j3Xc8b+ak/GhV7mACcDtGe iuRt/cz7nClzAkwUROIFJPo= =vlXo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
