new 'fetch' warnings & repo errors on update?

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Andreas Hanke schreef:
> 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).

Sometimes it is advisible to find out at which time the traffic is
heavy. and on which time it is not.
(in europe it is mostly in the early mornings that traffic is not very
high, so the speed is good at that time, but one has to figure that out
by himself, for his personal situation)

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