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Re: apt PARALLELISM



On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Joey Hess wrote:
> Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > > Or at least fall back to the other IPs if the first one gives an
> > > error?
> > I hope that this already happens...
> 
> apt doesn't know anything about round robin dns, and especially with
> secure apt, if one mirror gets out of sync things break horribly. This

Time to devise a way to teach it about that, then.  HOW to do it is the big
problem, though.  How should one deal with round-robin DNS mirrors which are
supposed to be equal, but are not.   What are the failure modes to cater
for?

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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