[tex-live] tlmgr at mirrors.ctan.org

[Victor Ivrii]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Victor Ivrii wrote:
>> tlmgr used to tell the name of the actual mirror used; not anymore, it says now
>>
>> http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
>>
>> without specification. Is it a bug or a feature?
>
> What invocation?
>

% tlmgr --location=http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
update --list
tlmgr: installation location http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008

but

%tlmgr --location=http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 list
tlmgr: installation location
http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008


Now:

Weyl:victor159%nslookup mirrors.ctan.org
Server:         128.100.68.3
Address:        128.100.68.3#53

Non-authoritative answer:
mirrors.ctan.org        canonical name = theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca.
Name:   theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca
Address: 142.132.30.225

Weyl:victor160%nslookup mirror.ctan.org
Server:         128.100.68.3
Address:        128.100.68.3#53

Non-authoritative answer:
mirror.ctan.org canonical name = theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca.
Name:   theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca
Address: 142.132.30.225

but invoking mirrors in tlmgr I get either uwaterloo or ottawa


I am confused :-(


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Victor Ivrii, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
http://www.math.toronto.edu/ivrii