Is ftp.au.debian.org broken?
Hi all.
I've been having problems with aptitude reporting that the InRelease
file has expired and is something like 363 days old.
When I use lynx to manually look at the site, indeed the files there
seem ancient.
Here is what ftp.au.debian.org is resolving to on my host:
~$ host ftp.au.debian.org
ftp.au.debian.org is an alias for mirror.linux.org.au.
mirror.linux.org.au has address 150.203.164.37
mirror.linux.org.au has IPv6 address 2001:388:1034:2900::25
mirror.linux.org.au mail is handled by 10 mirror.linux.org.au.
And the IPv4 address resolves like so:
~$ host 150.203.164.37
37.164.203.150.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer linux.anu.edu.au.
And here is what lynx shows when I run:
lynx http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/dists/testing
Index of /debian/dists/testing
Index of /debian/dists/testing
[ICO] Name Last modified Size Description
__________________________________________________________________
[DIR] Parent Directory -
[ ] ChangeLog 25-Jan-2012 21:05 1.3K
[ ] ChangeLog.201201171009 21-Jan-2012 21:07 0
[ ] ChangeLog.201201191009 21-Jan-2012 21:07 0
[ ] ChangeLog.201201201007 21-Jan-2012 21:07 0
[ ] ChangeLog.201201211007 21-Jan-2012 21:07 0
[ ] ChangeLog.201201212210 22-Jan-2012 09:10 27K
[ ] ChangeLog.201201221007 22-Jan-2012 21:07 2.1K
[ ] ChangeLog.201201222212 23-Jan-2012 09:12 29K
[ ] ChangeLog.201201231008 23-Jan-2012 21:08 1.3K
[ ] ChangeLog.201201232210 24-Jan-2012 09:10 19K
[ ] ChangeLog.201201241005 24-Jan-2012 21:05 4.1K
[ ] ChangeLog.201201242206 25-Jan-2012 09:06 33K
[ ] ChangeLog.201201251005 25-Jan-2012 21:05 1.3K
[ ] Contents-amd64.gz 26-Jan-2012 07:11 20M
[ ] Contents-armel.gz 26-Jan-2012 07:11 20M
[ ] Contents-armhf.gz 26-Jan-2012 07:11 17M
[ ] Contents-i386.gz 26-Jan-2012 07:11 20M
[ ] Contents-ia64.gz 26-Jan-2012 07:11 19M
[ ] Contents-kfreebsd-amd64.gz 26-Jan-2012 07:11 19M
[ ] Contents-kfreebsd-i386.gz 26-Jan-2012 07:11 19M
[ ] Contents-mips.gz 26-Jan-2012 07:11 20M
[ ] Contents-mipsel.gz 26-Jan-2012 07:11 20M
[ ] Contents-powerpc.gz 26-Jan-2012 07:11 20M
[ ] Contents-s390.gz 26-Jan-2012 07:11 19M
[ ] Contents-s390x.gz 26-Jan-2012 07:09 17M
[ ] Contents-sparc.gz 26-Jan-2012 07:11 20M
[ ] InRelease 26-Jan-2012 07:19 175K
[ ] Release 26-Jan-2012 07:19 174K
[ ] Release.gpg 26-Jan-2012 07:19 836
[DIR] contrib/ 26-Jan-2012 07:26 -
[DIR] main/ 26-Jan-2012 07:11 -
[DIR] non-free/ 26-Jan-2012 07:26 -
__________________________________________________________________
Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at ftp.au.debian.org Port 80
As you can see, the date stamps on all the files seem to be from January
2012 (not 2013).
If I go to ftp.debian.org instead of ftp.au.debian.org I see what looks
to be correct contents:
Index of /debian/dists/testing
Index of /debian/dists/testing
[ICO] Name Last modified Size
__________________________________________________________________
[DIR] Parent Directory -
[ ] ChangeLog 29-Jan-2013 22:05 3.4K
[ ] ChangeLog.201301272206 27-Jan-2013 22:06 10K
[ ] ChangeLog.201301281004 28-Jan-2013 10:04 937
[ ] ChangeLog.201301282205 28-Jan-2013 22:05 1.6K
[ ] ChangeLog.201301291004 29-Jan-2013 10:04 688
[ ] ChangeLog.201301292205 29-Jan-2013 22:05 3.4K
[ ] Contents-amd64.gz 30-Jan-2013 02:13 21M
[ ] Contents-armel.gz 30-Jan-2013 02:13 21M
[ ] Contents-armhf.gz 30-Jan-2013 02:13 21M
[ ] Contents-i386.gz 30-Jan-2013 02:13 22M
[ ] Contents-ia64.gz 30-Jan-2013 02:13 21M
[ ] Contents-kfreebsd-amd64.gz 30-Jan-2013 02:13 21M
[ ] Contents-kfreebsd-i386.gz 30-Jan-2013 02:13 21M
[ ] Contents-mips.gz 30-Jan-2013 02:13 21M
[ ] Contents-mipsel.gz 30-Jan-2013 02:13 21M
[ ] Contents-powerpc.gz 30-Jan-2013 02:13 21M
[ ] Contents-s390.gz 30-Jan-2013 02:13 21M
[ ] Contents-s390x.gz 30-Jan-2013 02:13 21M
[ ] Contents-sparc.gz 30-Jan-2013 02:13 21M
[ ] InRelease 30-Jan-2013 02:22 211K
[ ] Release 30-Jan-2013 02:22 210K
[ ] Release.gpg 30-Jan-2013 02:22 836
[DIR] contrib/ 30-Jan-2013 02:33 -
[DIR] main/ 30-Jan-2013 02:13 -
[DIR] non-free/ 30-Jan-2013 02:33 -
__________________________________________________________________
Apache Server at ftp.debian.org Port 80
I've had this problem on my host in Western Australia, but I've also
tested it on a different host in New South Wales, and it has the same
results. That host is using a different ISP.
Was the mirror.linux.org.au DNS redcord pointed to a different host
recently perhaps?
Regards,
--
Jim Barber
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