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netselect-apt not working?



Hi,

I just started using Debian. I'm reading the APT HOWTO.

In section 2.3 of that document, a suggestion is given to use
"netselect-apt stable" to automatically build a sources.list.
I've tries this, but it seems to to work: the output of running
'netselect-apt stable' is the following:
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Retrieving the list of mirrors from www.debian.org...

--19:31:05--  http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full
           => `mirrors_full'
Resolving www.debian.org... done.
Connecting to www.debian.org[192.25.206.10]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 0 [text/html]

    0K                                                           0.00
B/s

19:31:05 (0.00 B/s) - `mirrors_full' saved [0/0]

Choosing a main Debian mirror using netselect.
Usage: netselect [-v] [-vv] [-t min_tries] [-m max_ttl] host [host...]
The fastest server seems to be:


Choosing a non-US Debian mirror using netselect.
Usage: netselect [-v] [-vv] [-t min_tries] [-m max_ttl] host [host...]
The fastest non-US server seems to be:


Writing the sources.list in the current directory.
Done.

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The generated mirrors_full file is 0 bytes in length.
The geenrated sources.list looks like:
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# the main Debian packages.  Uncomment the deb-src line if you
# want 'apt-get source' to work with most packages.
deb  stable main contrib non-free
# deb-src  stable main contrib non-free

# the non-US Debian packages.  Uncomment the deb-src line if you
# want 'apt-get source' to work with non-US packages.
deb  stable/non-US main contrib non-free
# deb-src  stable/non-US main contrib non-free

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When I look at http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full with a web
browser, an empty page is served.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks





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