Re: [SLE] [SLE} is the apt server down?

From: Joe Morris (NTM) (Joe_Morris_at_ntm.org)
Date: 07/27/03

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    Franklin Maurer wrote, On 07/27/2003 09:43 AM:

    >Are the mirrors designed to speed up the downloads, by allowing packages to be
    >downloaded from three servers at one time, rather than waiting for the
    >ftp.gwdg.de server for every package? Or is it more for redundancy, like in
    >this situation where I should have disabled ftp.gwdg.de in settings >
    >repositories and been able to continue my downloading?
    >
    >
    I can't say what the answer is to your questions, but I know I have set
    up my sources list to get different components from all three servers,
    and it does indeed downloads from all three simultaneously (different
    things from each), and is effectively quite a bit faster.

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