On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:34, Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 23:35 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:21, Dave G wrote: > > > I've had a bit of trouble connecting to "jetstreamgames" lately > > > > Tragically, It's gone. > > I use > > GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.recoil.net.nz/gentoo > > ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ > > ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo ftp://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ > > ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ > > http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"; > > > > The second entry was suggested by the mirrorselect utility, and goes like > > the proverbial rocket, particularly good in the afternoons. > > Why so many? basically because that's the list which was produced by mirror select when I ran it a while ago + our local mirror as the first choice. Yes they are probably not all needed, but: 1 is our local mirror, BUT it's not official so we need something which is, so 2 which goes like a rocket, but it sometimes gets very busy in the mornings and kicks off out of Europe clients, so we pop over the lake, but 3 is very up & down, and frequently not very up to date. So then there are the others, which I could, as you suggest, remove.
> And I think at least the latter two are in the defaults anyway. Old list carried forward from long ago. -- CS
