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Re: [LUG] default ubuntu mirrors

 

On 17/04/2020 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.


Right answering this myself but it definitely only seems to be for instances pulling from the default configured repos for Bionic and derivatives (like Mint).

Can anyone using a Bionic/18.04 or Mint system based on that who hasn't altered their default apt sources confirm or deny that the mirrors are borked?

I've double checked at multiple sites but just for my own peace of mind before I start bothering mirror maintainers I'd like some confirmation. A local Arch VM is also timing out on mirrors so it's infrastructure related somewhere out there.

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