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On Sunday 24 December 2006 21:57, Sven Köhler wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> "emerge --sync" should sync with rsync.gentoo.org, to which many IP |
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> adresses (5 at the moment). |
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> |
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> Here's what host says: |
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> # host rsync.gentoo.org |
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> rsync.gentoo.org has address 129.79.6.73 |
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> rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.73 |
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> rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.74 |
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> rsync.gentoo.org has address 140.211.166.165 |
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> rsync.gentoo.org has address 64.127.121.98 |
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> |
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> The order of the adresses is random, when i rerun the command above. So |
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> i _would_ expect, that "emerge --sync" randomly choses on the the mirrors. |
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> |
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> But that is not true, and actually, on all my machines, "emerge --sync" |
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> uses always the 64.x.x.x mirror, and on the machine of a friend, it used |
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> always 129.x.x.x mirror - well, "always" is not true, but i run "emerge |
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> --sync" over and over again, and it did never try to use another one. |
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> |
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> So the thing is, that from my friend's DSL-connection, the server |
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> 129.x.x.x was unreachable, while the others were reachable. So we had to |
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> change the server manually in /etc/make.conf - but i don't understand, |
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> why "emerge --sync" used the one it was using, and why it didn't switch |
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> to one of the other ones. |
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I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed |
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that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When |
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I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific |
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mirror (again first time). |
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> BTW: Merry Christmas! |
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Merry Christmas to all Gentooists! :) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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