I’ve added to the docs the list of available maven2 mirrors, just use one of the following mirror entries in your settings.xml
<settings>
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<id>dotsrc.org</id>
<url>http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/maven2</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
<mirror>
<id>ggi-project.org</id>
<url>http://ftp.ggi-project.org/pub/packages/maven2</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
<mirror>
<id>sunsite.dk</id>
<url>http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/maven2</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
<mirror>
<id>planetmirror.com</id>
<url>http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/maven2</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
<mirror>
<id>lsu.edu</id>
<url>http://ibiblio.lsu.edu/main/pub/packages/maven2</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
<mirror>
<id>ibiblio.net</id>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.net/pub/packages/maven2</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
</settings>
More information in the guide to mirror settings.
Carlos Sanchez's Weblog 
Carlos,
With all the trouble iBiblio is having (it seems to be more unreliable than usual these days) I’ve attempted to add mirrors to my ~/.m2/settings.xml file. However, it doesn’t seem that Maven is using the settings! Is there a switch I need to provide to mvn to tell it to use my mirrors?
I can tell that my settings.xml file is being read, because I have elements which are used to deploy to a local repository. Here’s the output of mvn compile as an example:
ownloading: http://maven.mse.jhu.edu/m2repository/org/hibernate/hibernate3/3.1.2/hibernate3-3.1.2.pom
[WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository bajor-m2 (http://maven.mse.jhu.edu/m2repository)
Downloading: http://www.ibiblio.net/pub/packages/maven2/org/hibernate/hibernate3/3.1.2/hibernate3-3.1.2.pom
[WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
Downloading: http://maven.mse.jhu.edu/m2repository/org/springframework/spring-context/2.0-m2/spring-context-2.0-m2.pom
[WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository bajor-m2 (http://maven.mse.jhu.edu/m2repository)
Downloading: http://www.ibiblio.net/pub/packages/maven2/org/springframework/spring-context/2.0-m2/spring-context-2.0-m2.pom
[WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
Downloading: http://maven.mse.jhu.edu/m2repository/org/hibernate/hibernate3/3.1.2/hibernate3-3.1.2.jar
[WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository bajor-m2 (http://maven.mse.jhu.edu/m2repository)
Downloading: http://www.ibiblio.net/pub/packages/maven2/org/hibernate/hibernate3/3.1.2/hibernate3-3.1.2.jar
[WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
[Trackback] Carlos Sanchez has published in his blog a very useful list of Maven2 repository mirrors.
OK. I know this blog entry is 6 years old 🙂
But most of the links above are not working anymore.
Are there other repository mirrors out there?
6 years later but still around 🙂
The updated list of mirrors is at
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Mirrors+Repositories
Yes. I found that list already 🙂
Thank you anyway.