Re: problems with debian mirrors

["Salman Ahmed" <ssahmed@pathcom.com>]

>>>>> "JG" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:
    JG>  Maybe their ISP is ? Here is a test - go to
    JG> http://gandalf.tausq.org/~randolph/debian/env.cgi And see what
    JG> the REMOTE_ADDR field says, if it is not the address that
    JG> ifconfig reports you are being proxied.

ifconfig reports:

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
          inet addr:216.249.3.90  P-t-P:209.250.155.106  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:576  Metric:1
          RX packets:98 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3
          TX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 


I pointed netscape to the URL you mentioned and it reports REMOTE_ADDR
as being 209.250.153.18, so I guess I am being proxied. So what you are
saying is that my ISP's provider is proxying their connections ? Is that
the general idea ?

I am going to change my /etc/apt/sources.list to use ftp instead of http
and see if that fixes my problem.

Thanks for your help.

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Salman Ahmed
ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com