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The Kali Linux Mirrors
The sources.list extracts above refer to http.kali.org: this is a server running MirrorBrain2, which will redirect your HTTP requests to an official mirror close to you. MirrorBrain monitors each mirror to ensure that they are working and up-to-date; it will always redirect you to a good mirror.
Debugging a Mirror If you have a problem with the mirror (for instance because apt update fails), you Redirection can use curl -sI to see where you are being redirected: | |
$ curl -sI http://http.kali.org/README HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 09:43:21 GMT | |
2http://mirrorbrain.org
Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
X-MirrorBrain-Mirror: ftp.free.fr X-MirrorBrain-Realm: country
Link: <http://http.kali.org/README.meta4>; rel=describedby;
➥ type=”application/metalink4+xml”
Link: <http://ftp.free.fr/pub/kali/README>; rel=duplicate;
➥ pri=1; geo=fr
Link: <http://de-rien.fr/kali/README>; rel=duplicate; pri=2;
➥ geo=fr
Link: <http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/kali/README>; rel=
➥ duplicate; pri=3; geo=de
Link: <http://ftp.belnet.be/kali/kali/README>; rel=duplicate;
➥ pri=4; geo=be
Link: <http://ftp2.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/kali/README>; rel=
➥ duplicate; pri=5; geo=nl
Location: http://ftp.free.fr/pub/kali/README Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
If the problem persists, you can edit /etc/apt/sources.list and hardcode the name of another known working mirror in place of (or before) the http.kali.org entry.
We also have a second MirrorBrain instance: where http.kali.org hosts the package repositories,
cdimage.kali.org hosts the released ISO images.
➨ http://cdimage.kali.org
If you want to request a list of official Kali Linux Mirrors, you can add .mirrorlist to any valid URL pointing to http.kali.org or cdimage.kali.org.
➨ http://http.kali.org/README.mirrorlist
➨ http://cdimage.kali.org/README.mirrorlist
These lists are not exhaustive due to some MirrorBrain limitations (most notably mirrors re- stricted to some countries do not appear in the list unless you are in the given country). But they contain the best mirrors: they are well maintained and have large amounts of bandwidth available.