Gowator Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 What I'm gonna do is have say ftp.esat.net (fast but fulla mistakes) named 'main', and gd.tuwien.ac.at (quite comprehensive but damn slow) 'main2', assuming that's enough to give esat precedence. There is no way to consistently guarantee that system will work, and so trying to automate it is going to be difficult to achieve results. Although servers go down from time to time, the main problem of not being able to connect is often "over connection limit" Some mirrors on easy-urpmi allow 500 or more connections, others only around 50. Some don't have a connection limit but have a bandwidth limit, when its reached.....you can't connect. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yep and I have a feeling it disconnects between individual dloads so you might dload one but then the next time you are refused? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 Yep and I have a feeling it disconnects between individual dloads so you might dload one but then the next time you are refused? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, it can and does happen. (though not too often for me ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 Rafael has just very recently implemented an option into urpmi to allow it to retry the download a few times if it fails, which should help with busy mirrors. This will be in 10.2 final. I forget the name of the parameter, I'm at my other work's Windows machine again so I can't check. I think it might be in 10.2RC1, but not sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted March 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 Yep and I have a feeling it disconnects between individual dloads so you might dload one but then the next time you are refused? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, it can and does happen. (though not too often for me ) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Heh ... with gd.tuwien it tends to happen _during_ downloads. Add to that an average speed about 25kBps, and I think I'll be leaving that'un out of my masterplan (whatever it is...) Had a look at man urpmi and I reckon the options --media --excludemedia --sortmedia can help classifying the sources. Now just to put it all together... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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