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Re: apt-mirror near ashburn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Drake)
Mon Oct 7 12:14:59 2013
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:12:33 -0400
From: Robert Drake <rdrake@direcpath.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5252D049.107@pbandjelly.org>
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On 10/7/2013 11:16 AM, Michael Shuler wrote:
> Ubuntu != Debian
http://askubuntu.com/questions/157840/why-does-apt-get-fail-to-resolve-the-mirror
Apparently mirrors.ubuntu.com picks a mirror based on geographical
location using lines like this:
|deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise main restricted universe multiverse
deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-security main restricted universe multiverse
I'm not sure how good it is at picking a mirror though. ubuntu seems to make a mess of the sources.list
file and makes it scary to change. I always leave it with the mirror I chose during install.
This:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SourcesList
Says you can pick "Select Best Server" from a menu. That would probably work okay if it's not a headless box.
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