Re: Bug#420252: netselect-apt generates unvalidated unusable sources.list
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 05:26:34PM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote:
> > > The fastest server seems to be:
> > > http://72.51.51.7/debian/
>
> This address belongs to the PEER1 block :
> $ whois 72.51.51.7
> Peer 1 Network Inc. PEER1-BLK-08 (NET-72-51-0-0-1)
> 72.51.0.0 - 72.51.63.255
> Peer1 Network PEER1-CDNSRV-03A (NET-72-51-51-0-1)
> 72.51.51.0 - 72.51.51.15
>
> But the peer1 mirror present in the list is not it all in the same
> network .. (in 64.34.8.x)
indeed, I think there's some peer1 caching involved here: contacting the above
server I get a squid error message from "Generated Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:04:58 GMT
by nyc-ch-4.cdn.peer1.net (squid)"
Van: from where you were trying netselect-apt?
>
> > this is strange, netselect is supposed to return the symbolic name it founds.
> > However I cannot find the above address either by grepping mirrors_full or
> > resolving every mirror.
>
> Does netselect-apt resolve, then reverse-resolve dns entries ??
no, it only does a gethostbyname() call.
>
> > Anyway, I think automatic mirror checks are being done, thus netselect-apt
> > trusts mirrors_full to provide good informations.
>
> For the moment, automatic mirror checks are done, but the output of
> these checks at http://www.de.debian.org/dmc/today/ are not
> automatically exploited yet.
>
> So out of work or date mirrors may be present in the list.
thanks for the information! is the list of http/ftp working mirrors exported
somewhere so it is not necessary to parse the above page?
thanks,
filippo
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