Re: apt-get http mirrors ?

[Bill Goudie <bgoudie@pobox.com>]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:13:29PM +0200, Marc Hultquist wrote:
> Just wondering where I would be able to find a list of http deb
> mirrors for my debian server ? I cant ftp out through our squid proxy
> as well the rules and regulations, so I was wondering about the http
> mirrors rather ? But I dont have a mirror list for them :\ Does anyone
> know where I can find a list of possible mirrors ?

Also, you might want to give apt-spy or netselect-apt a try:

Package: apt-spy
Description: writes a sources.list file based on bandwidth tests
 Parses a list of mirrors and tests each of the mirrors for bandwidth.
 Writes a /etc/apt/sources.list file based on the responses it gets.

Package: netselect
Description: Choose the fastest server automatically.
 This is netselect, an ultrafast intelligent parallelizing binary-search
 implementation of "ping."  You give it a (possibly very long) list of
 servers, and it chooses the fastest/closest one automatically.  It's good
 for finding the fastest ftp.debian.org mirror, the least laggy IRC server,
 or the best Squid neighbour.
 .
 This version also includes netselect-apt, which creates an apt sources.list
 file automatically from the huge list of Debian mirrors.

I've always used netselect-apt in the past.

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