Incredibly slow mirror site

[Florent Thoumie]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 19:52 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:48:11PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> >   
> >> I'm building kde3 from ports, and the koffice install attempts to download 
> >> the tar.bz2 file from ftp.scarlet.be.  The download is about 2 BYTES per 
> >> second!
> >>
> >> I stopped the download and fetched the file from somewhere else.
> >>
> >> Maybe someone should check that site?
> >>
> >> Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
> >> Adjunct Information Security Officer
> >> The University of Texas at Dallas
> >> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
> >>     
> >
> > I can confirm this.  Passive vs. active FTP doesn't matter either.
> > Would the owner of this mirror please take ownership?
> >
> >   
> 
> The problem i think is that many ports with multiple mirrors will use 
> mirrors from 3rd world countries first, and the mirrors with real 
> bandwidth will always be last on the list. Can anyone explain to me why 
> that is? Doesn't it make more sense to try the fastest one first?

Belgium == Third world? Now that's new :-)

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer
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