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Re: apt-mirror near ashburn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Drake)
Mon Oct 7 10:47:24 2013
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:47:13 -0400
From: Robert Drake <rdrake@direcpath.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLab3D0XjUzRtZHtftC_nr98j_hdEvbUoFt0if_4Pvs4PfQ@mail.gmail.com>
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My suggestion is to use http://http.debian.net/debian as your source.
It uses geo thingie to figure out the closest mirror to you.
Code is on github if you're interested in how it works.
https://github.com/rgeissert/http-redirector
On 10/5/2013 11:11 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>> {{{
>> $apt-get install libsm6
>> ...
>> After this operation, 717 kB of additional disk space will be used.
>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>> WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
>> x11-common libice6 libsm6
>> Install these packages without verification [y/N]?
>> }}}
>>
>> hmmmmm. ft meade can't even hack the checksums?
> possibly the mirror is just misbehaving :( it's been a while since i
> ran it, so I'm honestly not sure what's going on with it these days.
>
> -chris
>
