Re: ftp.debian.org out of date?
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 05:25:05PM -0500, Jon Eisenstein wrote:
> > Hi. I'm not quite sure what's happening here.. I'm seeing new packages in
> > sid on the Australian mirror that I can't find at ftp.debian.org. As far as
> > I can tell, ftp.debian.org does not appear to have been updated since March
> > 11.
> >
> > Am I just looking in completely the wrong place? I haven't seen any issue
> > arise on the mailing lists beyond the note that ftp.debian.org had run out of
> > disk space, but this was shortly followed by an all-is-well.
>
> I've been wondering the same thing. I normally upgrade at least once a
> day, and if I remember correctly the ftp sites are normally updated twice
> a day. However, nothing new has shown up in my lists for a few days now,
> and to diagnose, I tried changing download sites. I'm about to try that
> australian mirror you mention, since debian.uchicago.edu,
> ftp.us.debian.org, ftp2.sourceforge.net and ftp.debian.org all seem to be
> completely static.
>
ftp.debian.org is usw-sf-ftp1.sourceforge.net (note that it is not master.debian.org) - despite the name, it's still a mirror (please don't use master.debian.org, if it's even possible).
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