On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:56:01 -0700
Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Often it isn't actually the mirror, it is some router
> on the path from the mirror to your computer.
>
You mean a router outside my DSL router?
Right, somewhere on the list you get if you do a traceroute.
I had a problem with
liberty.edu mirrors for a while
which no one else seemed to be having. Gave up trying to
figure out why, and just added the mirror to the exclude
list in the fastest mirror plugin. I have since
regenned the system and didn't put back the exclusion,
and haven't had any problems, so sometimes it comes
and goes. This networking stuff is all very mysterious :-).