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Re: [LUG] default ubuntu mirrors

 

On 17/04/20 17:57, comrade meowski wrote:
> Hey, anyone else noticed frequent and recurrent problems with Ubuntu/Mint
> etc and the default apt repos at mirrorservice.org recently?
>
> They seem to be borked for the last week at least and time out. My
> production boxes and heavily used personal systems all have specially
> crafted non-default apt sources configured and continue to work perfectly
> but every random still-default VM or box I test is having the same
> result. Most of them are on-site so I've already categorically excluded
> it being my end, if only it were that simple.
>
> It's easily "fixed" by amending sources to point at the super reliable
> German mirror but I'm interested to know if anyone else has noticed this.
> It may be mirrors dropping out of sync periodically and may only be for
> Bionic but I thought I'd ask before committing time to triage and fix
> this unexpected headache.
>
FWIW I contacted Tim at mirrorservice when the Gentoo mirrors stopped
syncing. Needless to say the problem was at the Gentoo end, but he was very
swift to answer, and keen to fix whatever the problem might be. I think he
found a better source somewhere, because I  certainly don't remember seeing
anyone from 'infra' get off their asses ... but it works now. Maybe worth a
quick mail ?

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