Repository mirror ftp.us.debian.org 204.152.191.39 gone bad?

[Jonathan Wilson <jw@mailsw.com>]

Hello,

Because I live in the US I prefer to use ftp.us.debian.org as my mirror of 
choice in my apt source, however every once in a while I have problems with 
it, which makes me think I should give up and use a different mirror. I think 
the correct solution though is to fix the bad mirror, since its a choice I 
expect many users/newbies use when they first install Debian in the US.

Today I went to install software on a matched pair of servers, and apt-get 
update worked fine on the first one. "host ftp.us.debian.org" on the first 
one shows the following:

:~# apt-get update
<snip>
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources
Fetched 2B in 0s (5B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

:~# host ftp.us.debian.org
ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.30.2.36
ftp.us.debian.org has address 204.152.191.39
ftp.us.debian.org has address 35.9.37.225
ftp.us.debian.org has address 64.50.236.52


A half second later I did the same thing on the other server and I get:

:~# apt-get update
<snip>
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Sources
Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages [5621kB]
99% [3 Packages gzip 0]
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages
  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Fetched 3B in 0s (4B/s)
Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  
Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Reading package lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones 
used instead.

:~# host ftp.us.debian.org
ftp.us.debian.org has address 204.152.191.39
ftp.us.debian.org has address 35.9.37.225
ftp.us.debian.org has address 64.50.236.52
ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.30.2.36

I tried it several times and i got the same error. This leads me to the 
conclusion that something's wrong with 204.152.191.39. I've had this same 
thing happen before but I don't know if it was on 204.152.191.39 or not.

I switched the second server to ftp.d.o and it works fine.

Can someone look into this?

Thanks,

	JW


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