first A record of security.debian.org extremely slow

[Michal Sabala <saahbs@yahoo.com>]

For the past month or so security updates have been very slow for us
(~5KB/sec). It appears that the first A record for the
security.debian.org is the problem.

host -t a security.debian.org
security.debian.org has address 82.94.249.158   <----- slow
security.debian.org has address 128.101.80.133
security.debian.org has address 194.109.137.218

Editing /etc/hosts to contain:
128.101.80.133 security.debian.org

solves the problem. Our network is working properly BTW.

Can somebody please take a look at 82.94.249.158 host/net please, please,
please?

I'm considering starting to mirror security. I don't see a reason why
security repository shouldn't be mirrored, while in reality tampering with
packages on _any_ repository has the same outcome.

Thanks,

Mike (not on the mailing list, please Cc).