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I am in United Kingdom, so why use a mirror from SA?

Most mirrors do not carry repositories/, but if there is no suitable UK mirror, I would have expected a redirect to a European mirror.

FWIW, opensuse.mirror.ac.za does partially resolve now:

host opensuse.mirror.ac.za
opensuse.mirror.ac.za has address 155.232.191.223
Host opensuse.mirror.ac.za not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
Host opensuse.mirror.ac.za not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

If it's any comfort, I'm in Switzerland and for that package, I am given

http://ftp.gwdg.de - Germany

http://opensuse.mirror.liquidtelecom.com - Kenya
http://opensuse.mirror.ac.za - South Africa
http://mirror.firstyear.id.au - Australia.

Judging by https://mirrors.opensuse.org, they are the only mirrors of repositories/ that are up to date.

vkrevs wrote:

P.S.: I am in United Kingdom, so why use a mirror from SA?

This usually may happen when a package has just released and either no mirror in EU has the file yet, or the scanner is not aware that any EU mirror has it. (Another possibility is inaccurate GeoIP database, then country is displayed wrong in http://download.opensuse.org/rest/myip , but I don't think it is the case here).

I just wish there was some sort of controls I could apply from my side - like "only use mirrors in EU".

download.opensuse.org is under heavy load, so currently for everyone's benefit it was decided that it is better to send request across the ocean than the main server becomes unavailable.

If you prefer to see a error like 'No mirror found in EU, retry later', we may develop such parameter, which will be possible to add to baseurl in /etc/zypp/repos.d/*.repo files.

Currently download.o.o understands parameter AVOID_COUNTRY so e.g. baseurl parameter in the .repo file may look like:

baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/tools:/compiler/openSUSE_Leap_15.3?AVOID_COUNTRY=nz,ru

It is possible to implement similar parameter for staying in single region, but not sure when it can get priority, especially that it may increase load on download.opensuse.org in extreme cases.

Regards,
Andrii Nikitin

Yes, working around with baseurl is what I would recommend if download.o.o shows poor behavior for somebody.

vkrevs wrote:

I really hate to write this, but the logic used by download.o.o to select mirrors right now just does not seem to work very well, at least for me. It just does not seem to select mirrors based on geographical proximity nor by download speeds from each mirror.

I am afraid that those mirrors were the only known mirrors that had the files. From server side it is better to direct request to another continent, rather than try to serve everything (and fail because of overload).

This really should be done by zypper on the client.

Agree, I tried as well to convince zypper developers and they do investigate some improvements in this regard.

Feel free to close this issue.

Regards,
Andrii Nikitin