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keepitsimpleengineer

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From: San Joaquin Valley, CA

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[SOLVED]Reflector returning only one server for United States

Bug report filed @ https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do … k_id=49714

When I ran (from the examples)... .. .

reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p http --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

it returned... .. .

Server                                    Rate       Time
http://arch.localmsp.org/arch/    367.97 KiB/s     0.32 s

Last edited by keepitsimpleengineer (2016-06-15 22:26:36)

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Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED]Reflector returning only one server for United States

Actually, this may be correct. If you look at the mirror status page, all of the other US mirrors have a very low completion percentage right now, I'm sure due to some moving around of servers internally.

And please edit your bug link so that it doesn't automatically vote for the ticket in question.

Last edited by Scimmia (2016-06-15 01:31:31)

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED]Reflector returning only one server for United States

And more info, it appears that the completion percentage is how often a mirror status check has completed over a period of time (24hrs? not sure). The status checks failed for a while as things were moved between servers. Once the time period has passed, everything will be back to normal.

Last edited by Scimmia (2016-06-15 17:53:23)

ukhippo

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Re: [SOLVED]Reflector returning only one server for United States

You can specify -c/--country multiple times on the reflector command line. Useful for getting a wider range of available mirrors. I personally use

reflector -c "United Kingdom" -c France -c Netherlands -l 40 -f 3 ...

as the French and Dutch mirrors were equally fast for me when I did some tests.

keepitsimpleengineer

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From: San Joaquin Valley, CA

Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 382

Re: [SOLVED]Reflector returning only one server for United States

Up to three (from U.S. servers @ 22:22 UTC 15-JUN)... .. .

$ reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p http --sort rate --save ~/Desktop/mirrorlist 
rating http://arch.localmsp.org/arch/
rating http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/
rating http://mirror.lty.me/archlinux/
Server                                          Rate       Time
http://mirror.lty.me/archlinux/         771.65 KiB/s     0.15 s
http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/    505.23 KiB/s     0.24 s
http://arch.localmsp.org/arch/          339.66 KiB/s     0.35 s

https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/

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Al Einstein: "Man soll die Dinge so einfach machen wie möglich ~ aber nicht einfacher." (Things should be as simple as possible ~ but not too simple.) ~ Al (Einstein) war ein Cousin von Albert, "Al" ist die Abkürzung für Aloysius