On Sunday 24 December 2006 21:57, Sven Köhler wrote: > 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.
I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific mirror (again first time). > BTW: Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to all Gentooists! :) -- Regards, Mick
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