Hi, "emerge --sync" should sync with rsync.gentoo.org, to which many IP adresses (5 at the moment).
Here's what host says: # host rsync.gentoo.org rsync.gentoo.org has address 129.79.6.73 rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.73 rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.74 rsync.gentoo.org has address 140.211.166.165 rsync.gentoo.org has address 64.127.121.98 The order of the adresses is random, when i rerun the command above. So i _would_ expect, that "emerge --sync" randomly choses on the the mirrors. But that is not true, and actually, on all my machines, "emerge --sync" uses always the 64.x.x.x mirror, and on the machine of a friend, it used always 129.x.x.x mirror - well, "always" is not true, but i run "emerge --sync" over and over again, and it did never try to use another one. So the thing is, that from my friend's DSL-connection, the server 129.x.x.x was unreachable, while the others were reachable. So we had to change the server manually in /etc/make.conf - but i don't understand, why "emerge --sync" used the one it was using, and why it didn't switch to one of the other ones. Thanks, Sven BTW: Merry Christmas!
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