Mirror connects to mug.ca all the time yet I am in the Netherlands

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Hello all from the Niederlanden,

Yesterday I started to use ipfire and I am starting to like it.

Is it normal to connect all the time to the mug.ca mirror while I am in the Netherlands?

Can I change it somewhere that I can connect to a non USA mirror but preferably to a German server?

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Hi @jack32

Welcome to the IPFire community.

Currently my system is saying that there are 25 mirrors in the server list that IPFire uses. The one selected to be used is chosen randomly each time it is needed. Presumably to spread the load on the mirrors. So you can’t change the mirrors that are used.

From the logs you can see how many servers IPFire had in the list to choose from when the download was carried out.
You can grep in the logs to see which mirrors were used

less /var/log/messages | grep "DOWNLOAD INFO: Host"

which on my current messages log gave

Apr 11 00:25:26 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: pakfire.ipfire.org (HTTPS) - File: 2.25-x86_64/lists/server-list.db
Apr 11 00:25:27 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: muug.ca (HTTPS) - File: mirror/ipfire/pakfire2/2.25-x86_64/lists/packages_list.db
Apr 11 00:25:28 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: ftp.cc.uoc.gr (HTTPS) - File: mirrors/linux/ipfire/pakfire2/2.25-x86_64/lists/core-list.db
Apr 11 23:17:11 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: pakfire.ipfire.org (HTTPS) - File: 2.25-x86_64/lists/server-list.db
Apr 11 23:17:12 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: mirror.uta.edu.ec (HTTPS) - File: ipfire/pakfire2/2.25-x86_64/lists/packages_list.db
Apr 11 23:17:14 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: mirror.cedia.org.ec (HTTPS) - File: ipfire/pakfire2/2.25-x86_64/lists/core-list.db
Apr 12 09:45:19 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: ftp.gwdg.de (HTTPS) - File: pub/linux/ipfire/pakfire2/2.25-x86_64/meta/meta-sslh
Apr 12 09:45:27 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: mirror.cedia.org.ec (HTTPS) - File: ipfire/pakfire2/2.25-x86_64/lists/packages_list.db
Apr 12 09:45:29 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: ftp.gwdg.de (HTTPS) - File: pub/linux/ipfire/pakfire2/2.25-x86_64/paks/sslh-1.7a-5.ipfire

You can see I also had the muug.ca mirror once but also others, some of which were repeats but that can happen with a random selection out of 25 servers.

If the mirror list is more than 60 mins old then the list is recreated first before downloading anything.

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