Re: no failover in debian?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Edward S. Peschko wrote:
> 
> > hey all,
> >
> > I was wondering - is there no failover in debian?
> >
> > When trying to download from ftp.no.debian.org, it said that there were 'too many
> > users in my class' or somesuch when I did an update. That's fine, excepting
> > it neglected to failover to the next debian server when I did an apt-get source.
> >
> > Is this supposed to be this way? Or am I missing something?
> 
> apt-get -m
> 
> May not work for source, but does work for debs.

Also for debs apt-get will try the next server if you configured
multiple sources, just not for sources.

MfG
        Goswin