Actively monitor mirror quality, and remove bad mirrors from the list
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I've noticed that low quality mirrors are annoyingly common in Ubuntu. By low quality I mean:
* Mirrors that aren't anymore and return a 404
* Mirrors that offer very low download speeds, such as 50KB/s, when many users have connections capable of much higher speeds
* Mirrors that fail often, by for instance timing out.
For instance, from the mirrors available for Spain:
ftp.dat.
sunsite.rediris.es is slow, getting speeds from 50KB/s to a max of 150KB/s or so.
My suggestions:
* Mirrors should be actively policed, and checked for availability, performance, and being up to date. Mirrors that don't perform well enough should be removed.
* Mirror lists should be periodically refreshed by package management tools, since an user who uses a now failed mirror would have a hard time downloading an updated package that contains a new list.
* Package management tools should automatically offer a good mirror to use, by testing the mirrors for the user's country for latency and bandwidth and selecting the best one.
Changed in ubuntu: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
It would be great to at least get the freshness data from https:/ /launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +archivemirrors into software- properties- gtk and other mirror choosing tools. Has that been proposed before?
I've been using ubuntu. secs.oakland. edu for months oblivious to the fact that it's very, very out of date. When I finally discovered and switched mirrors, I had 317 packages to be upgraded.