Re: [PLUG] debian apt-get problems?

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:58:22PM -0400, Michael C. Toren wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:30:48PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > My understanding is that ftp.debian.org will hit round-robin DNS
> > and so go somewhere in a reasonably load-balanced way.
> 
> It looks like ftp.debian.org only returns one IP address, actually,
> rather than using round-robin DNS.  I'm using ftp.us.debian.org in
> my sources.list, which *does* in fact use round-robin DNS.  Maybe
> give that a try?  Failing that, another option may be to migrate
> away from ftp and to start using http://http.us.debian.org instead.

Switching to ftp.us.debian.org helped some, but migrating to http
in addition solved the problem.  Thanks.

But why would ftp vs http matter?

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