there's also the unfortunate case of: "My traffic to the selected mirror is over the 'expensive' transit port, why can't I use my SFP's mirror over there on the left?"
setting the mirror to a specific one means some fragility, but determinism is nice. On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Robert Drake <rdr...@direcpath.com> wrote: > > On 10/7/2013 11:16 AM, Michael Shuler wrote: >> >> Ubuntu != Debian > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/157840/why-does-apt-get-fail-to-resolve-the-mirror > > Apparently mirrors.ubuntu.com picks a mirror based on geographical location > using lines like this: > > |deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise main restricted > universe multiverse > deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-updates main restricted > universe multiverse > deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-backports main > restricted universe multiverse > deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-security main restricted > universe multiverse > > I'm not sure how good it is at picking a mirror though. ubuntu seems to > make a mess of the sources.list > file and makes it scary to change. I always leave it with the mirror I > chose during install. > > This: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SourcesList > > Says you can pick "Select Best Server" from a menu. That would probably > work okay if it's not a headless box. > | >
