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Re: [PLUG] debian apt-get problems?
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Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:30:45AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson said:
>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:58:22PM -0400, Michael C. Toren wrote:
>> 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?
>
> The machine is probably heavily loaded, and it's limit for concurrent
> ftp sessions is lower than it's limit for concurrent http sessions. Or
> not. Just a guess.
>
FTP also has more overhead than http (on both sides) and takes longer
to to do an actual transfer. It's also possible there's something else
going on with the OP's machine, like it's not trying an anonymous login
but using his username instead.
PaulNM
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