Re: packages search results.
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:09:26PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > All the packages search results have ftp:// in front of the href. This is a
> > problem when going to http.us.
>
> How so?
>
> auric!joey(pts/23):~> wget ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/devel/libmm10_1.0.11-1.deb
> [...]
> 16:08:38 (98.35 KB/s) - `libmm10_1.0.11-1.deb' saved [11682]
>
> http.us should be a round robin rotation and I guess the servers also
> provide ftp.
Indeed, http.us.debian.org is perhaps confusingly named, since FTP (and
rsync) works just fine on each of the hosts behind that name.
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