new 'fetch' warnings & repo errors on update?

[Andreas Hanke]

Pascal Bleser schrieb:
> Ermm... download.opensuse.org and software.opensuse.org are *redirectors*.
> You can just use those URLs and will always be round-robined on mirrors.
> 
> While my smart package includes explicit mirrors for those URLs,
> they're not really needed.
> 
> [...]
> 
> People are supposed to use download.opensuse.org, which is
> automatically redirected to a mirror.

Why do people so often end up on ftp.opensuse.org when using
download.opensuse.org?

This is obviously the case for the reporter and just now I tried again,
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1 sends me directly to
ftp.opensuse.org and it's damn slow.

I don't need to be told that these URLs are *redirectors*, I know this,
yet still the best results can be achieved by avoiding them completely.

The test above was made with a browser, but it's not better with wget:

# wget http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1/iso/SUSE-
Linux-10.1-GM-i386-mini.iso
--17:46:20--
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-
GM-i386-mini.iso
           => `SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-i386-mini.iso'
Resolving download.opensuse.org... 195.135.221.130
Connecting to download.opensuse.org|195.135.221.130|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location:
http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/iso/SUSE-
Linux-10.1-GM-i386-mini.iso [following]
--17:46:20--
http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/iso/SUSE-
Linux-10.1-GM-i386-mini.iso
           => `SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-i386-mini.iso'
Resolving ftp.opensuse.org... 195.135.221.134
Connecting to ftp.opensuse.org|195.135.221.134|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 36,810,752 (35M) [application/x-cd-image]

 0% [                           ] 97,607     1.73K/s  ETA 3:46:15

Are the results with smart different? I don't think so. This is
responsible for many complaints about poor performance and failed
downloads, since times there's no transfer at all instead of 1.73 K/s
(which is a quarter of modem speed).