Wouldn't it be better to use a mirror site of "ftp.suse.com"? I think that German users (especially users who are connected to "DFN") have a much faster connection to SuSE's primary mirror "ftp.gwdg.de".
This is correct.
I am writing this to avoid that many people are simply going to copy your "mirror" config file... "ftp.suse.com" has been under high load for the last months (at least this is my experience), although it became better in last weeks.
The limit is at 600 users. Currently, there are 468 users online, the bandwidth is always saturated. It is adviseable to use a mirror. There will be more mirrors soon, hopefully. The number of them is not the issue, but the fact that the mirror sites are out of sync very often.
After the release of "kde-2.0", "kde-2.1", "kde-2.1.1", "XFree86-4.0.3" and the ftp version of SuSE Linux 7.1 it took quite a long time until "ftp.gwdg.de" mirrored all directories completely (perhaps due to high load on "ftp.suse.com"?). Now "ftp.gwdg.de" seems to be more "up to date" again.
There have been some problems with the routing between DFN (Deutsches Forschungsnetz) and our US West Coast provider.
Best regards, Steffen
Thanks,
Roman.
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