From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 21:22:21 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 61D4F9CE for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2015 21:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f49.google.com (mail-yh0-f49.google.com [209.85.213.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 284DDB93 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2015 21:22:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f49.google.com with SMTP id f10so2437037yha.8 for ; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 13:22:14 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=6H+KKumlQ7+IrjFGRf14HcuRhY7jPSyxHuVbRV0Cc1s=; b=MVLEAa4ylqoA1G9yFFkH86BFhA6W8JU/UNDjwWsgdL7+Z+BgcP5rvCHLUrK1Oss9oZ Eqht2tX87X9/8V7aHMRwkHPLT/+1cNfU+wUWE31JobSoYk6h0udGcu3bDhRkXjOmFdpG D3WD4cIBVQUCcvFK2ruqqhUibFUWg7N3EbeusgV1SNCC1dBkanIB+6gGy5UL8J2vWKbW OON4TLf9AVz0Ltoqx6TNipObh8Yng787tK1yZotudhhUSlAJbkmq4df3Fvih96X91DlH urMI8fyHmzfg4EIecqfJ07m22AU3e7yNj0OUxUFssNaaojhWn6IMFzD1/oczdkYz0xOk U4Kw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkXmdaaHM5nB4bwzC2IMXZvyRXbClachOoSDEdvYB1VUBk6X3kzFX7Nri9RahFFO85jBVm1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.236.40.116 with SMTP id e80mr8673491yhb.186.1420752134694; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 13:22:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.170.88.69 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Jan 2015 13:22:14 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [81.217.14.197] Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 22:22:14 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Installing/updating packages - change to different mirror server? From: a jenisch To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 21:22:21 -0000 Hi, I'm running into a problem when trying to install/update packages on my 10.1 System: My system always tries to connect to "pkg0.ydx.freebsd.org". However whatever I try to install/update the transfer rate is down to 20 to 50kBit/s (!) and finally completely dies. On the other hand one of my colleagues has a similar (also 10.1) system at home and never experienced issues like these. Looking at the connections his system opens when running package installs/updates it turned out that his system connects to "pkg0.bme.freebsd.org" even though we live in the same city with only a few blocks in between. So here are my questions: o) Is there any way to override the decision my system makes on which package mirror it fetches packages from? o) How does FreeBSD decide on the update mirror in the first place? I wonder why my system consistently tries to connect to "pkg0.ydx..." whereas the system of my colleague always connects to "pkg0.bme.freebsd.org". Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald