Re: Suggestion: Add option to use GNU mirrorlist for downloading sources

On 11/18/25 3:25 PM, "Glitch (and Gummi)" ([email protected] via lfs-support 
Mailing List) wrote:
> Hi there,
> I recently had an exchange with a sysadmin from the FSF after I was having trouble 
> connecting to the GNU FTP server to download the required packages for LFS. 
> Apparently they were having problems with DDoSes on their server, so they implemented 
> a block on IP addresses that made several requests in a short time. Unfortunately, as 
> I was downloading a large amount of packages from their server at the time (as you do 
> for LFS), I got caught in this ban and was no longer able to connect.
> 
> I eventually resolved this by `sed`ing the wget-list to point to a mirror of the GNU 
> FTP instead. As mentioned in the beginning, I additionally emailed GNU directly about 
> this and got in touch with one of their sysadmins, who suggested I point to 
> `ftpmirror.gnu.org` to automatically get redirected to the fastest mirror. I have 
> done this when downloading subsequent source packages and it seems to work well.
> 
> Interestingly, the sysadmin mentioned that he wanted to send a suggestion to LFS, 
> that they add a note advising users to point to `ftpmirror.gnu.org` if they are 
> having trouble connecting to the main GNU FTP server. I agree that this would be 
> useful advice, so I took the liberty of writing out this suggestion myself. I don't 
> know how many people are experiencing connection issues with downloading sources, but 
> I could imagine adding a little note in the download instructions could save some 
> users a lot of hassle.

See the 'Important' note at 
https://rivendell.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter03/introduction.html

   -- Bruce

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