Re: [ILUG-BOM] debian mirrors

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:30:08PM +0530, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:

I had posted a mail earlier saying that I found it very difficult to run "apt-get update" ... it turns out that the default debian sites have become extremely slow to access from IIT. Now that I switched to the Australian mirror (arbit decision) everything is fine.

Has anybody tried using netselect to see which is the best mirror to use from India? I can't do that from IIT since ping packets can't go out ...

i haven't tried netselect, but the speed of iitm.ac.in is often very clearly faster than sites outside of India. Try it:

deb ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian testing main contrib non-free