Re: dead/slow mirrors?
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, David Z Maze wrote:
> 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.
Well fair enough. Any way you choose to do it, the downed server seems to
be 204.152.189.120. There are the four servers I get from dig:
http.us.debian.org. 336 IN A 141.213.4.21
http.us.debian.org. 336 IN A 192.25.206.10
http.us.debian.org. 336 IN A 35.9.37.225
http.us.debian.org. 336 IN A 204.152.189.120
There seems to be only one machine for non-us(?).
What does it take to setup a mirror? I have largely idle bandwidth in an
abovenet colo that would be fine for a debian mirror.
-jwb
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