On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Kent West wrote:
So my questions:
1) Does anyone have experience enough with caching servers to
verify/deny that it is causing the problems?
2) Are there any client-side settings that I can make on my Debian
boxes to bypass the cache server?
3) If the caching server is causing the problems, is it due to a
misconfiguration, or is it just the nature of a caching server, and
there's nothing that can be done about it short of disabling it entirely?
First of all: there IS a simple solution:
don't use deb http://... lines, use deb ftp://