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problem using netselect

Netselect is not telling me which mirror is the best to download from. Maybe I am using it wrong. Am I using it right? Why is it not telling me the best server for downloading?

Code:

[root@localhost Desktop]# netselect -vv http://ubuntu-releases.cs.umn.edu/ http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/ http://ftp.wayne.edu/ http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/ http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ http://se.releases.ubuntu.com/ http://ie.releases.ubuntu.com/

netselect: unknown host http://ubuntu-releases.cs.umn.edu/

netselect: unknown host http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/

netselect: unknown host http://ftp.wayne.edu/

netselect: unknown host http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/

netselect: unknown host http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/

netselect: unknown host http://se.releases.ubuntu.com/

netselect: unknown host http://ie.releases.ubuntu.com/

http://ubuntu-releases.cs.umn.edu/    9999 ms  30 hops    0% ok

http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/              9999 ms  30 hops    0% ok

http://ftp.wayne.edu/                9999 ms  30 hops    0% ok

http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/            9999 ms  30 hops    0% ok

http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/          9999 ms  30 hops    0% ok

http://se.releases.ubuntu.com/        9999 ms  30 hops    0% ok

http://ie.releases.ubuntu.com/        9999 ms  30 hops    0% ok

[root@localhost Desktop]# man netselect

No manual entry for netselect

[root@localhost Desktop]#

I just installed netselect to see what it does and I get:

Code:

$ sudo netselect -vv http://ubuntu-releases.cs.umn.edu/ http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/ http://ftp.wayne.edu/ http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/ http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ http://se.releases.ubuntu.com/ http://ie.releases.ubuntu.com/

Running netselect to choose 1 out of 10 addresses.

..........................................................................

http://130.239.18.158/                  48 ms  29 hops  30% ok ( 3/10) [  631]

http://130.239.18.159/                  59 ms  30 hops  30% ok ( 3/10) [  792]

http://130.239.18.163/                  55 ms  30 hops  30% ok ( 3/10) [  736]

http://130.239.18.138/                  51 ms  28 hops  40% ok ( 4/10) [  486]

http://ie.releases.ubuntu.com/          21 ms  20 hops  50% ok ( 5/10) [  126]

http://ubuntu-releases.cs.umn.edu/    107 ms  20 hops  90% ok ( 9/10) [  357]

http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/            163 ms  19 hops  60% ok ( 6/10) [  785]

http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/            167 ms  28 hops  80% ok ( 8/10) [  790]

http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/                111 ms  21 hops  60% ok ( 6/10) [  573]

http://ftp.wayne.edu/                9999 ms  30 hops    0% ok

  126 http://ie.releases.ubuntu.com/

Could it be down to your routing or ISP?

Quote:

Originally Posted by XavierP

Could it be down to your routing or ISP?

I don't know, but I never had a routing problem before. If the program just uses ping, then it should work for me. I'll try it again in Ubuntu. Right now I'm using it from Fedora.

There is a problem with my motherboards built on network adapter. It got fried. So did another one on the network. I think they both were fried at the same time, so both computers must use a PCI network adapter now. Even though my network adapter on my mobo is fried, Linux still recognizes it and tries to use it. I configured my Linux to use eth1 instead of eth0. I wonder if the program is trying to use my bad network adapter.