Re: dead/slow mirrors?
Jeffrey W Baker <jwbaker@acm.org> writes:
JWB> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 glynis@butterfly.hjsoft.com wrote:
g> i use http.us.debian.org in my sources.list, and it's been terribly
g> troublesome recently. apparently one or 2 hosts in that round-robin
g> are not responding, so my updates and upgrades always get hung up. is
g> it possible to get these broken hosts out of the list?
JWB>
JWB> I was seeing the same thing. I found a reliable mirror and
JWB> hard-wired it in /etc/hosts
Eeeew. I'm all for the "finding a reliable mirror" thing, and I think
there are tools to help you do that if randomly pinging things off of
the mirrors list isn't your thing. Rather than hard-wiring somebody
else's IP address in /etc/hosts, though, it feels a lot cleaner to me
to just put the name of your neighborhood mirror in
/etc/apt/sources.list directly.
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