Slow fedora mirror

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Over the last week or so, maybe longer, dnf on my machines has been connecting to a ridiculously slow mirror. Download speeds are on the order of 10s of kilobytes. My question is how do I deal with this? I would like to report the mirror so that, hopefully, the problem can be fixed.
Failing that, how can I exclude a particular mirror from being used by dnf?

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Hello @dciarnie! Welcome to the community! Please do take a few minutes to go over the introductory posts in #start-here when you have the time. They contain lots of useful information.

What about enabling DNF fastestmirror option?

fastestmirror
    boolean
    If enabled a metric is used to find the fastest available mirror. This overrides the order provided by the
    mirrorlist/metalink file itself. This file is often dynamically generated by the server to provide the best
    download speeds and enabling fastestmirror overrides this. The default is False.

So, edit /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

echo "fastestmirror=True" | sudo tee -a /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

Then, for instance

sudo dnf makecache --refresh
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Or as written here Can not update! - #7 by youssefmsourani by @youssefmsourani :

sudo dnf config-manager --setopt=fastestmirror=True --save
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Thanks but I already have fastestmirror enabled.

My experience has been that fastestmirror is not particularly reliable in actually choosing the fastest mirror as illustrated by my current situation.

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Mmm ok.
But do you have identified what is the mirror that is so slow?

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I don’t know if DNF has an option to exclude a specific mirror. It seems it doesn’t have.
BTW you can add an entry like this to /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 mirror.domain.something
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That’s what I thought, I just hoped that I had missed something.
The alternative is to pick a host and set it as the baseurl in the repo file but that defeats the whole purpose of using mirrors in the first place.

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For your information, someone else had your issue. It is reported on this ticket: Issue #7957: mirror.layeronline.com slow download speeds - fedora-infrastructure - Pagure.io

mirror.layeronline.com has been temporarily disabled and the maintainer has been notified.

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@alciregi Please add iitk.co.in mirror to the ticket as well since I’m too facing the same problem.

edit: Nevermind. Will do it myself.

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Yes. You can comment to or open a new issue by yourself :smiling_face: :+1: