Re: dead/slow mirrors?

["Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 glynis@butterfly.hjsoft.com wrote:

> i use http.us.debian.org in my sources.list, and it's been terribly
> troublesome recently.  apparently one or 2 hosts in that round-robin
> are not responding, so my updates and upgrades always get hung up.  is
> it possible to get these broken hosts out of the list?
>
> or is it just me?  this happens to me at home an at work.

I was seeing the same thing.  I found a reliable mirror and hard-wired it
in /etc/hosts

-jwb