[PLUG] Which fast (Indian) mirror for Fedora? (Like PicoNets)

[Amey Abhyankar]

Hello Vishal,

On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 10:57, Vishal Rao <vishalrao at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 19:03, Amey Abhyankar <sco1984 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 18:16, Vishal Rao <vishalrao at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any recommendations for a fast repo mirror for Fedora?
>> >
>> > I'm running Fedora 29 Workstation and have BSNL's FTTH 100 mbps connection which I'd like to take full advantage of with a good fast repo mirror.
>>
>> 1) What are the DNS IP's you have? i.e. Google DNS or DNS from BSNL?
>> 2) Can you put traceroute result here for any of the mirror?
>>
>
> Incidentally, the ubuntu india mirror at in.archive.ubuntu.com which was giving me full 100 mbps speeds recently has again gone slow and the traceroute is going to a US or UK mirror apparently:
>
> PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> .\TRACERT.EXE in.archive.ubuntu.com
>
> Tracing route to in.archive.ubuntu.com [91.189.88.152]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
>   1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.0.0.1
>   2     1 ms    <1 ms     1 ms  192.168.1.1
>   3     2 ms     2 ms     1 ms  103.77.240.1
>   4     2 ms     2 ms     1 ms  218.248.164.97
>   5     3 ms     2 ms     2 ms  218.248.164.114
>   6     *        *        5 ms  218.248.235.197
>   7     6 ms     *        5 ms  218.248.235.198
>   8     5 ms     5 ms     5 ms  115.113.165.93.static-mumbai.vsnl.net.in [115.113.165.93]
>   9     5 ms    22 ms    24 ms  172.23.78.233
>  10     5 ms     5 ms     4 ms  ix-ae-0-100.tcore1.mlv-mumbai.as6453.net [180.87.38.5]
>  11   111 ms   111 ms   110 ms  if-ae-5-6.tcore1.wyn-marseille.as6453.net [180.87.38.126]
>  12   109 ms   107 ms   108 ms  if-ae-8-1600.tcore1.pye-paris.as6453.net [80.231.217.6]
>  13   107 ms   107 ms   107 ms  if-ae-11-2.tcore1.pvu-paris.as6453.net [80.231.153.49]
>  14   108 ms   108 ms   108 ms  80.231.153.66
>  15   118 ms   118 ms   119 ms  ae-1-3114.edge5.London1.Level3.net [4.69.148.218]
>  16   118 ms   118 ms   118 ms  SOURCE-MANA.edge5.London1.Level3.net [212.187.138.82]
>  17   118 ms   117 ms   118 ms  steelix.canonical.com [91.189.88.152]
>
> Trace complete.
> PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>
>
>
>>
>> >
>> > The default meta mirror list with the DNF fastestmirror option enabled does not work well for me.
>> >
>> > I tried many of the mirrors listed on https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ and currently settled on http://mirror.switch.ch/ or at least some of the related mirrors listed on switch.ch (the switch mirror itself is apparently closed down).
>> >
>> > These only seem to hover around 20-50 mbps speeds for me, so still looking for better options.
>> >
>> > If you folks remember PicoNets (it currently has ubuntu mirror which is fast) it is also listed on the fedora mirror list webpage but it currently is not uptodate. I pinged Prakash (the founder) on linkedin and he mentioned he will try to look for someone to revive the mirror, so hopefully that will be a good option :-)
>> >
>> It is unstable i.e. http://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/ubuntu/ or not
>> working anymore for example.
>> > But in the meantime I wanted to know if anyone is using a fast mirror that works well?

I had discussion with multiple experts on this issue.

I got following feedback/suggestion/comment from them = If Apache is
not fine tuned to accept TCP packets/sessions over SSL/TLS it can
cause time out issues. [Something to do at server side where
repositories are hosted]

I guess same applies for HTTP based repositories hosted on Apache
based web server.
I have bitter experiences with Apache 2.4.

I am not really an Apache web server expert/admin hence unable to
describe in exact technical wording format. Sorry about that.

Work around = try ftp based repositories.  :-)

Regards,
Amey.

>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Vishal
>> >
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