On 16/07/05, Carlos E. R.
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The Friday 2005-07-15 at 16:48 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:
My list shows one German site and five USA sites which is why I provided the info that I did.
Hmmm, there is most definitely something odd going on then :-)
YOU uses the timezone of your computer to determine the list of servers. Set yours to "Europe/London" in Yast if you want servers from UK. However, that doesn't guarantee perfect results, because I don't get Spanish servers (that do exist) but Germans ones.
Remember that I said that this is documented somewhere in the SuSE site. Here, in fact:
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/03/cg_suseservers.html
| * The server list proposed by YOU makes no sense. Servers are | scattered around the world (USA, Australia, Japan, etc.), but there | are no servers near your own location. | | Cause |------- | | In order for YOU to define a suitable mirror server for your SUSE | product, the SUSE Web server www.suse.de runs a small program that is | queried by YOU in order to determine which mirror servers are available | for the product you use. | | The main information transmitted by YOU includes the product used, | version numbers for important YOU components and the computer | architecture. As of SUSE LINUX 9.0, the system also transmits additional | information about the system time zone, as configured by you in YaST2. | | Using the transmitted time zone and the product information, the system | uses a list of possible http and ftp mirror servers around the world to | create a list of mirror servers near you. | | This list is made up of between 6 and 10 mirror servers which are mixed | using a random function. They are then displayed in the YOU installation | source selection window. | | The SUSE Web server also checks at regular intervals to determine which | mirror servers are still available. If the access fails, then the | relevant mirror servers are removed from the list of possible mirror | servers. | | Solution |---------- | | If a mirror server is not working properly, try one of the other | possible mirror servers in the next YOU run. The list is deliberately | mixed in order to spread the downloads as evenly as possible to ensure a | satisfactory result in most cases. | | If the mirror server selection list appears to be completely unsuitable, | then you should check your time zone settings in YaST2 (provided you are | using SUSE LINUX from version 9.0 and above). The default selections | with "country" time zones such as "Europe/Berlin", "Europe/Paris" etc. | work particularly well. If, for example, you set the US zone "GMT-7", | then it is not possible to set a specific default. Instead, you should | select "US/Mountain".
| If the time zone transmitted by YOU to the SUSE Web server is unknown, | or if you are using a version of SUSE LINUX before version 9.0, then the | system will display German mirror servers first.
Hmmm, I'm still puzzled then. My time zone is set to Europe/London GMT. Always is from the very start of installation - well, where I can specify it anyway :-) Perhaps the UK servers have been down?? -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR