Best debian mirror

Spencer

I have a KVM VPS and im reinstalling now but for the mirror list that it gets packages from I used the default one. It is soo slow. Which would you guys recommend?

seraphkz

I'm actually wondering about that too.
Using the default us.debian mirror on my buyvm boxes, and its slow as hell.

mikho

If u are using buyvm, try their mirror.

DanielM

OVH or leaseweb for EU

Spencer

Im trying internap and seeing how that goes.

fly

if you're in the united states, my school provides a pretty good mirror:
http://cosmos.cites.illinois.edu/pub/debian/

It also mirrors a bunch of other distros:
http://cosmos.cites.illinois.edu/

yomero

netselect-apt

Ok, seems broken

apt-spy

dmmcintyre3

Install CentOS and let fastestmirror decide.

yomero

@dmmcintyre3 said: Install CentOS and let fastestmirror decide.

I need a "dislike" button

Spencer

@yomero said: I need a "dislike" button

Didn't know we were on facebook!

yomero

@PytoHost said: Didn't know we were on facebook!

Even I don't have an account n_n

fly

fastestmirror? you mean ICANHAZALLYOURRAMS?

quirkyquark

@PytoHost said: Which would you guys recommend?

Where is your VPS/server physically located?

MeMyselfandLinux

@dmmcintyre3 said: Install CentOS

^This

if you have a box in my country ^^
http://kambing.ui.ac.id/debian/

they even have backports

http://kambing.ui.ac.id/debian-backports/

and another ton of stuff

fly

i'm assuming he wants a central us server according to his other posts.

dmmcintyre3

@kbar said: fastestmirror? you mean ICANHAZALLYOURRAMS?

I only have trouble with the fastestmirror plugin on non-vswap openvz with less than 128mb free ram. Yum with fastestmirror works better on my 64mb inceptionhosting Xen than apt-get on deb 6 did. (always had issues with dpkg failing to update the kernel even with 1gb swap)

fly

Since when should a package manager use more than 50 MB of ram. Seriously.

Damian

@kbar said: fastestmirror? you mean ICANHAZALLYOURRAMS?

That made me choke on my water

seikan

@MeMyselfandLinux said: http://kambing.ui.ac.id/debian/

Your "goat" server working fast to me, thanks

quirkyquark

@kbar said: i'm assuming he wants a central us server according to his other posts.

This is the netselect top10 from Kansas City:

   28 debian.uchicago.edu
   34 mirrors.gigenet.com
   37 mirror.steadfast.net
   52 debian.mirrors.tds.net
   59 debian.cites.illinois.edu
   79 ftp.ndlug.nd.edu
   87 mirrors.modwest.com
   96 mirror.cc.columbia.edu
   98 mirror.rit.edu
  100 mirrors.xenir.com

From Chicago:

    0 mirror.steadfast.net
    3 debian.uchicago.edu
    3 mirrors.gigenet.com
   15 debian.mirrors.tds.net
   52 lug.mtu.edu
   59 mirror.rit.edu
   63 debian.mirror.frontiernet.net
   68 debian.lcs.mit.edu
   80 debian.ec.as6453.net
   80 mirror.cc.columbia.edu

fly

rit is the best mirror hands down. east coast, central, even eu.

not sure why illinois is so far down.... they have redundant fiber to chicago lol

Francisco

@seraphkz said: 'm actually wondering about that too.

Using the default us.debian mirror on my buyvm boxes, and its slow as hell.

The -pve kernels have a bug in them that makes IPv6 traffic dog slow We've been rolling pony6-3 to any box that gets tickets about it. us.debian.org has AAAA records so it takes those. For people that don't feel like ticketing we just tell them to either disable IPV6 or to just use the internal mirror.

We could schedule a reboot of everything on -pve, but that'd just annoy people :P

Francisco

Spencer

I'm on the hostigation lax node. So Chicago would be fine.

quirkyquark

@PytoHost said: I'm on the hostigation lax node. So Chicago would be fine.

Heh, maybe. In any case, here's a top 10 from "LAX", a box 6 hops from Hostigation:

    1 http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/
   17 http://debian.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/debian/
   17 http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/
   20 http://debian.securedservers.com/debian/
   22 http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/
   22 http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/
   57 http://mirror.peer1.net/debian/
   86 http://mirrors.modwest.com/debian/
  131 http://199.6.12.70/debian/
  131 http://debian.ec.as6453.net/debian/

And a quick and dirty script to find the top10 from anywhere (must have netselect installed):

netselect -vv -s10 \
`wget -O- http://www.debian.org/mirror/list | \
grep -o -P "http.*\/debian.*\/.*\"" | tr '"\n' '  '`

It's worldwide because (a) I'm lazy and (b) notice no. 5 (NZ) above. For Ubuntu, from a VPS in San Diego, NZ mirrors rank no. 2 and 3 among "up to date" mirrors.

rds100

If the speed issue is IPv6 related edit /etc/gai.conf and put (uncomment) this line:

precedence ::ffff:0:0/96  100

This will make ipv4 preferred over ipv6 (by default ipv6 is preferred).

raindog308

Between Francisco's insight and rds100's fix, I was able to apt-get my cajones off tonight.

NanoG6

@seikan said: Your "goat" server working fast to me, thanks

seikan where are you? Malaysia? I don't know if kambing has broad bandwidth to outside Indonesia. Since international bandwidth is expensive here :-/

Mon5t3r

@NanoG6 around 5-10mbps, this one of my prefer repo. but the first one is always ugm repo.. :P

~$ wget -O /dev/null kambing.ui.ac.id/iso/centos/6.2/isos/i386/CentOS-6.2-i386-netinstall.iso
--2012-04-09 23:41:49--  kambing.ui.ac.id/iso/centos/6.2/isos/i386/CentOS-6.2-i386-netinstall.iso
Resolving kambing.ui.ac.id... 2403:da00:1:3::1e, 152.118.24.30
Connecting to kambing.ui.ac.id|152.118.24.30|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 169869312 (162M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[=====================================================>] 169,869,312  901K/s   in 3m 32s  

2012-04-09 23:45:43 (784 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [169869312/169869312]

NanoG6

@Mon5t3r said: around 5-10mbps, this one of my prefer repo. but the first one is always ugm repo.. :P

Wheres your VPS located? If your server hosted on IIX or even JIX of course that'll be your favorite :P

Mon5t3r

hahaha fremont he.net.. and i live in Jogja.. so i can get 100mbps or even 1gbps to ugm repo with some tweak.. (use it only for my macbook with debian) :P

NanoG6

@Mon5t3r said: so i can get 100mbps or even 1gbps to ugm repo with some tweak..

Mind to tell me?