Mirrors
1 Choosing a Mirror
It is not necessary to prefer any mirror. The default mirrorlist (with multiple 'redirector' entries) is the most robust configuration; and all tier-1 and tier-2 mirrors serve exactly the same files (most tier-3 mirrors also do). A speed boots can often be achieved by preferring one mirror; but the difference is probably not drastic. The best metric for choosing a preferred primary mirror, is latency; which is mainly related to geographical proximity. This is why we indicate the geographical location of each mirror; but tools such as ping, traceroute, mtr/mtr-gtk, and the 'reflector' package can be useful gauges also.
The tables below, are mainly interesting to Parabola sysadmins, for sorting mirrors into tiers, and coordinating their sync schedules. The bandwidth figures are not to be taken as an indication of the download speed, which any client may get from that mirror. Even if some mirror exposes a total bandwidth of 100 times more than some other; it is not an indication that you will get faster downloads from that mirror. Mirror operators are free to partition and throttle connections. It is common for mirrors to throttle each connection to approximately 8Mbit, for example. That prevents one client from hogging all of the bandwidth, and making other clients wait. A higher bandwidth number is more of an indication, that the server can serve more clients simultaneously.
Likewise, there are some private mirrors listed, which do not serve packages publicly. These are listed to assist Parabola sysadmins with scheduling; because they pull from the main Parabola repo server.
2 Creating your own Mirror
If you would like to mirror Parabola, and ideally, to become part of the Parabola public mirror network, refer to the Creating_a_mirror article. Be aware that this is somewhat technical, quite demanding, and potentially expensive, both for you and for Parabola's hosts. Most ordinary users would never need to do this. Please do not create a mirror unless you have a very good reason to (eg: you would like to share all of Parabola with others).
3 Parabola Mirrors Sync Schedules
TODO:
- complete missing information ('?')
- blank cells are non-applicable to their category
- if we go with the "tier-0 sources" plan, notify those admins that they may restrict access only to our tier-1 mirrors, if they wish (effectively, opting out of the public network)
- contact the mirrors mailing list and begin coordinating the final arrangement
- after tiering is decided and implemented, delete the "DELETEME - tier-1 checklist items" - these are relevant only to determine the inital tiering arrangement
UPDATE 2023-12:
- lukeshu has negotiated a new high-bandwidth server (~6gbps) for parabola to use; so the "tier-0 sources" plan is not so urgent - OTOH, as tier-0 mirrors would be sync-ing with parabola continuously, i suppose there could be multiple of them
| Tier 0 Sources (These mirrors sync with repo.parabola.nu, continuously) |
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| Host | Upstream | Minute | Interval | Location | Mb/s | IPv6 | RSYNC | IP | Subscribed | IRL | GPG | Notes |
| dotsrc.org | parabola.nu | :48 | ?6h | Denmark | 10000 | yes | yes | ? | yes | yes | yes | |
| ip-connect.vn.ua | parabola.nu | ? | ? | Ukraine | 10000 | yes | yes | ? | yes | yes | ? | missing: gpg | Tier 1 Mirrors (These mirrors sync with a Tier-0 Source, multiple times per hour) |
| Host | Upstream | Minute | Interval | Location | Mb/s | IPv6 | RSYNC | IP | Subscribed | IRL | GPG | Notes |
| cyberbits.eu | parabola.nu | */10 | 10m | France | 1000 | yes | yes | 62.210.124.230 2001:bc8:32d7:25e::42 |
yes | yes | yes | |
| dotsrc.org | parabola.nu | :48 | ?6h | Denmark | 10000 | yes | yes | ? | yes | yes | yes | |
| freedif.org | nju.edu.cn | :15 | 4h | Singapore | 10000 | no | yes | ? | yes | no | no | missing: irl,gpg |
| grapentin.org | parabola.nu | :00 | ?4h | Germany | 1000 | no | no | ? | yes | yes | yes | missing: rsync |
| ip-connect.vn.ua | parabola.nu | ? | ? | Ukraine | 10000 | yes | yes | ? | yes | yes | ? | missing: gpg |
| linux.pizza | parabola.nu | ? | ? | Sweden | 1000 | no | yes | ? | yes | ? | ? | missing: irl,gpg - will be shutting down soon |
| uwaterloo.ca | parabola.nu | :55 | ?12h | Ontario | 1000 | yes | yes | ? | no | yes | yes | missing: mailing-list | Tier 2 Mirrors (These mirrors sync with a Tier-1 Mirror, once per hour) |
| Host | Upstream | Minute | Interval | Location | Mb/s | Notes | ||||||
| cyberbits.asia | cyberbits.eu | */10 | 10m | Thailand | 200 | |||||||
| fsf.org | ? | :15 | ?4h | Massachusettes | 1000 | operator prefers tier 2 | ||||||
| infania.net | ? | :12 | ? | Sweden | 100 | |||||||
| jing.rocks | cyberbits.eu | */20 | 20m | Japan | 10000 | |||||||
| nju.edu.cn | uwaterloo.ca | ? | ? | China | 10000 | |||||||
| quantum-mirror.hu | ? | ? | ?4h | Hungary | 700 | |||||||
| yandex.ru | ? | :05 | ?6h | Russian Federation | ? | bandwidth unknown - admin never responded to emails | Tier 3 (Un-tiered) Mirrors (These mirrors are unregulated) |
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| Host | Upstream | Minute | Interval | Location | Mb/s | Notes | ||||||
| isacdaavid.info | yandex.ru | ? | ? | Netherlands | 10000 | operator prefers un-tiered | ||||||
| umu.se | ? | :10 | ? | Sweden | 20 | low bandwidth | Hackers Private Mirrors (These mirrors are unregulated, unrestricted, and probably private-access) |
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| Hacker | Upstream | Minute | Interval | Notes | ||||||||
| bill-auger | parabola.nu | ? | ?4h | |||||||||
| lukeshu (beefcake) | parabola.nu | ? | ?4h | |||||||||
| gnutoo | parabola.nu | ? | ?4h |
