Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-26 Thread Linux Advocate
my region Linux Advocate wrote: johny, thanx for the link. i think 'my' should point to jp, cn, tw, au,sg. the setup u have there is ;) do all ISP's in .MY use the same peering/trunking or do different providers have different sorts of international backbone

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
inetnum: 60.48.0.0 - 60.54.255.255 netname: XDSLSTREAMYX descr:Telekom Malaysia Berhad descr:Network Strategy descr:Wisma Telekom descr:Jalan Pantai Baru descr:50672 Kuala Lumpur country: MY . A couple different geo-ip

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
John R Pierce wrote: fwiw, it appears linux advocate is sending his email from a Malaysia IP per the email headres... $ whois 60.50.xxx.yyy [Querying whois.apnic.net] [whois.apnic.net] % [whois.apnic.net node-2] % Whois data copyright terms

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releaseverarch=$basearchrepo=os baseurl=ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 Regards, Oliver I have done this;

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
If you take a look in /etc/yum.repos.d/ you will see a number of files. There should be example baseurl lines in the repo files which will be commented out by default. Here's an example of how I use this to manually use my local ISPs mirror for the base repo: [base]

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
my repos are configured to use mirrorlist. how do i add mirrors manually? If you take a look in /etc/yum.repos.d/ you will see a number of files. There should be example baseurl lines in the repo files which will be commented out by default. Here's an example of how I use

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Oliver Ransom
On 24/08/2009, at 7:06 PM, Linux Advocate wrote: my repos are configured to use mirrorlist. how do i add mirrors manually? If you take a look in /etc/yum.repos.d/ you will see a number of files. There should be example baseurl lines in the repo files which will be commented out by

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releaseverarch=$basearchrepo=os baseurl=ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 Regards, Oliver oliver what kind of

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
Linux Advocate wrote: John R Pierce wrote: fwiw, it appears linux advocate is sending his email from a Malaysia IP per the email headres... $ whois 60.50.xxx.yyy [Querying whois.apnic.net] [whois.apnic.net] % [whois.apnic.net node-2] % Whois data copyright terms

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread Linux Advocate
I maintain the RPM that is used as part of CentOS Extras and that we use on the CentOS servers in question. I did some major work on the app that CentOS uses for mirrorlists and isolists over the weekend. Especially in the AP region, as we have picked up some mirrors there recently.

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-24 Thread John R Pierce
Linux Advocate wrote: johny, thanx for the link. i think 'my' should point to jp, cn, tw, au,sg. the setup u have there is ;) do all ISP's in .MY use the same peering/trunking or do different providers have different sorts of international backbone connections?

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Linux Advocate
i have tried yum clean all , yum clean metadata - Original Message From: Linux Advocate linuxhous...@yahoo.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 8:56:37 PM Subject: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Oliver Ransom
On 22/08/2009, at 10:37 PM, Linux Advocate wrote: i have tried yum clean all , yum clean metadata - Original Message From: Linux Advocate linuxhous...@yahoo.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 8:56:37 PM Subject: [CentOS] fasttest

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Linux Advocate
Hi Linux Advocate, I have found this a problem for the Australian servers I manage as well. I suggest you manually test the speed of some local mirrors then manually specify a mirror rather than relying on the fastest mirror plugin. If your ISP mirrors content locally then that'd

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Johnny Hughes
John R Pierce wrote: fwiw, it appears linux advocate is sending his email from a Malaysia IP per the email headres... $ whois 60.50.xxx.yyy [Querying whois.apnic.net] [whois.apnic.net] % [whois.apnic.net node-2] % Whois data copyright termshttp://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread tech
Johnny Hughes wrote: What I get is unknown (with our current version). When unknown, it passes a list of high bandwidth machines. I will get and build a newer version of the GeoIP database and see if I can get a better result. I reported a problem like this much earlier. I am in Hong

Re: [CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

2009-08-22 Thread Johnny Hughes
tech wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: What I get is unknown (with our current version). When unknown, it passes a list of high bandwidth machines. I will get and build a newer version of the GeoIP database and see if I can get a better result. I reported a problem like this much earlier.