Proposed Repositories - GPG errors

David Curtis dcurtis at uniserve.com
Sat Oct 31 14:33:52 UTC 2009


On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:00:20 -0700
NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 10/30/2009 06:30 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> ...
> > 
> > Let software sources pick the best server for you.  Ever since I
> > did that it downloads fast with no errors.  Don't even know where
> > it is as it just has an IP address.  Whois says it's FDCservers.net
> > in Chicago.
> 
> Right... I've done that in the past & end up with a server in the
> Ukraine or some other place half way around the world from my location
> in California. Decided to test again & just now it selected
> mirrors.us.kernel.org so that's not so bad. :-)

Meh, It's just a latency and/or short-time-frame bandwidth test. Not
going to tell you about the load capabilities of the site. Take a look
at the mirror list...

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors

Dave




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