Re: ftp.debian.org
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:35:04PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 15 September 2008, Ricardo Yanez wrote:
> > I made an installation the other day with the official CD1 and noticed
> > that when selecting the US, the mirror ftp.debian.org was highlighted
> > instead of ftp.us.debian.org. I believe this result in even more people
> > using a mirror that is supposed to be put out of circulation. You have
> > to move the cursor to use ftp.us.debian.org, which probably only
> > happens if you know ftp.debian.org is not the official mirror for the
> > US, and is not the same as ftp.us.debian.org, which is the round-robin
> > people should prefer. I suspect few know this.
>
> This has already been fixed in daily built versions of the installer.
Was it hardcoded, or just because of stable not getting rebuilt?
Because I commented out the ftp.d.o links from the mirror list on
December 7th, 2007.
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