Re: Connection timed out & Incorrect MD5Sum

[wtopa@ix.netcom.com]

	Subject: Connection timed out & Incorrect MD5Sum
	Date: Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 09:55:10AM -0600

In reply to:debian-user-request@lists.debian.org

Quoting debian-user-request@lists.debian.org(debian-user-request@lists.debian.org):
> 
> When using apt-get at:
> 
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/
> 
> why do I get the following errors repeatedly on the same packages?
> 
> 1) Connection timed out
> 2) Incorrect MD5Sum
> 
> What is the proper thing to do about a situation like this?  Should I
> report it and if so, where?  Should I use an alternate http site.  The list
> of mirror sites does not list any alternate http sites.  I tried a couple
> ftp sites and kept getting "Couldn't locate an archive source for package
> ...". 
> 
  When I get this I switch sites in sources.list.  Fixes it for me.

  Many reasons for it, site could be updating files etc.

> Thanks for the help.
> 
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