On Sat, 24 May 2003, Joshua Bergland wrote:

> There is a line in your /etc/make.conf that allows you to specifty a 
> mirror ... Just uncomment the line and follow the example, putting your 
> preferred mirror first in the list.

There's also a package called "mirrorselect" that will let you select from
a list of mirrors or choose a mirror automatically based on the best
response time.