Op zondag 27 juli 2003 03:43, schreef Franklin Maurer:
It seems that it was a combination of the two. My entries for mirrors.mathematik and uni-erlangen.de were lacking a few entries. I just went on to the mathematik server and it seems it's a full mirror not the limited mirror that i thought it was. Since mathematik and ftp.gwdg.de are identical this brings a few questions to mind.
I was surprised by mirrors.mathematik myself as well. It used to be that only the base components were mirrored.
Are the mirrors designed to speed up the downloads, by allowing packages to be downloaded from three servers at one time, rather than waiting for the ftp.gwdg.de server for every package? Or is it more for redundancy, like in this situation where I should have disabled ftp.gwdg.de in settings > repositories and been able to continue my downloading?
It's a combination of the 2.
Also does the order that the repositories are listed in sources.list matter? or does synaptic / apt choose the fastest server, just take turns between the servers, or simply use the first server in the list for the majority of the packages?
The fastest server should be listed 1st, the slowest at the bottom. You can use netselect to determine your fastest server. BTW netselect can be used to determine tha fastest YOU server as well.... -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless