Fedora mirrors in India

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi,

Lately I have been having issues while updating.  Regularly I encounter
something like this:

[MIRROR] glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.i686.drpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/updates/23/x86_64/drpms/glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.i686.drpm [Connection time-out]
[MIRROR] glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.x86_64.drpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/updates/23/x86_64/drpms/glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.x86_64.drpm [Connection time-out]
[MIRROR] NetworkManager-openvpn-1.0.8-1.fc23_1.0.8-2.fc23.x86_64.drpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/updates/23/x86_64/drpms/NetworkManager-openvpn-1.0.8-1.fc23_1.0.8-2.fc23.x86_64.drpm [Connection time-out]
[MIRROR] glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.i686.drpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Linux/packages/fedora/updates/23/x86_64/drpms/glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.i686.drpm []
[MIRROR] NetworkManager-openvpn-1.0.8-1.fc23_1.0.8-2.fc23.x86_64.drpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Linux/packages/fedora/updates/23/x86_64/drpms/NetworkManager-openvpn-1.0.8-1.fc23_1.0.8-2.fc23.x86_64.drpm []
(1/9): NetworkManager-openvpn-1.0.8-1.fc23_1.0.8-2.fc23.x86_64.drpm                                                                                            472  B/s |  57 kB     02:03
(2/9): glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.i686.drpm                                                                                                                 4.8 kB/s | 615 kB     02:08
[DRPM] NetworkManager-openvpn-1.0.8-1.fc23_1.0.8-2.fc23.x86_64.drpm: done
[MIRROR] glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.x86_64.drpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Linux/packages/fedora/updates/23/x86_64/drpms/glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.x86_64.drpm [Connection time-out]
[MIRROR] glibc-devel-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.x86_64.drpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/updates/23/x86_64/drpms/glibc-devel-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.x86_64.drpm [Connection time-out]
(3/9): glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.x86_64.drpm                                                                                                               2.2 kB/s | 545 kB     04:03
[DRPM] glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.i686.drpm: done

So I checked, and there is not a single mirror in India!  

  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/mirrors/Fedora/23

This is surprising since several technology institutes used to host
Fedora mirrors.  Does anyone have any ideas what happened to them?  Any
suggestions as to how I can instruct dnf to use mirrors closer to home
(e.g. prefer south-east Asia over Asia-Pacific) would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks for any ideas.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.