Re: US mirror troubles

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 09:24:24AM -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote:
> 
> Using "host" from bind9-host,
> $ host http.us.debian.org
> http.us.debian.org has address 128.101.240.212
> http.us.debian.org has address 204.152.191.7
> http.us.debian.org has address 35.9.37.225
> http.us.debian.org has address 64.50.238.52
> 
> And if you repeat the command, you will see the DNS doing round-robin
> returning the addresses in various orders.  This seems great.
> 
> However, libc6 resolv+ (I think - can someone confirm who is to
> blame?) goes out of its way to *sort* the list by IP number and thus
> thwarts the round-robin.  Aptitude (and wget, &c) *always* choose
> 35.9.37.225.  This server must be getting beat like a red-headed
> stepchild since *all* the debian update/upgrade trying
> http.us.debian.org go there.


See http://bugs.debian.org/438179


Kurt