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From: Corey Shields <cshields@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Cc: "Ralph F. De Witt" <ralphdewitt@×××××××.net>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff.
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:29:55
Message-Id: 1060550943.1630.172.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff. by Jon Portnoy
1 On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 14:52, Jon Portnoy wrote:
2 > > IIRC, the new installation manual includes a step to run mirrorselect. As I
3 > > see it, either they set towbit.net as default to encourage people to use
4 > > mirrorselect, or perhaps you ran mirrorselect and it (foolishly?) chose
5 > > towbit.net as the "best" mirror.
6 > At one point (1.4rc3?) twobit was set as the default mirror by accident.
7 > Any recent stage shouldn't have that problem...
8
9 There is a somewhat new round robin DNS set for distfiles. Set the
10 first choice in your GENTOO_SOURCES to http://distfiles.gentoo.org/
11
12 The mirrors in this set are all high bandwidth mirrors. Any problems
13 please open up a bug to mirror-admin
14
15 Cheers!
16
17 --
18 Corey Shields - Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team
19 http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields

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