new 'fetch' warnings & repo errors on update?

[Keith Roberts]

Try this mirror. I downloaded a 700mb iso image in 19 
minutes from here. I find goint to ftp mirrors annoying whne 
I expect http protocol.

http://mirror.karneval.cz/pub/opensuse/SL-10.1/iso/

Keith

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On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Andreas Hanke wrote:

> To:  <smart at labix.org>
> From: Andreas Hanke <andreas.hanke at gmx-topmail.de>
> Subject: Re: new 'fetch' warnings & repo errors on update?
> 
> 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).
>