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I'm using fedora 23 and I want to change the default settings in dnf in order to use a specific server mirror from here.

Jarod Bassett
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There are multiple options, you can hard code it (/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo) or using fastmirror.

In order to use fastmirror you must first activate it:

in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf add fastestmirror=true then using this command dnf config-manager --add-repo add the mirror you want to use, you can add multiple mirrors and the fastest one will be used.

Example:

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo http://ftp.byfly.by/pub/fedoraproject.org/linux/releases/23/Everything/x86_64/os/

You must use the path /linux/releases/23/Everything/x86_64/os/ for fedora 23 releases and for fedora 23 updates /linux/updates/23/x86_64/ otherwise will not work.

Sergiu
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  • fastestmirror is unfortunately named; it has nothing to do with throughput and only ping time, and will generally cause trouble. https://twitter.com/KWF/status/1585319975438340097 https://twitter.com/carlwgeorge/status/1585442730162913282 – mkj Nov 10 '22 at 00:42
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To change Fedora Mirror and some setting to reach highest speed do this

Edit the dnf configuration file

sudo nano /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

Add the following lines:

deltarpm=false
keepcache=true
ip_resolve=4

It depends on your own that you like DeltaRPM or not (true or false). Google it to find what exactly it does.

In the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory there are files that need a small edit. The main file is fedora-updates.repo

Add country=us (use your own country code) to the end of all of the "metalink" lines for the fedora repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d/

It's better to use de, nl or any european country that have the strong, fast servers. Bandwith capacity matters and not ping.

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user8543335
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  • sorry for bumping an old topic but as it come up in google searches, I think its better to complete this with what I have done and got result – user8543335 Sep 02 '19 at 09:03