Re: Problem with Update repository
On 24/03/12 16:06, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>
>>
>> On 24/03/12 07:41, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>>> On Sb, 17 mar 12, 21:33:30, Scott Ferguson wrote:
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>
> Actually...
>
> Slight correction - I haven't used Smoothwall Express for about a year,
> now.
>
My mistake - I read too much into the timing of your post to
debian-firewalls.
> I have been using Firestarter (which, unfortunately, appears to now be
> unsupported, and, abandoned by developers and maintainers).
>
> I thgink that the Debian Project term for the status of Firestarter,
> now, is "orphaned".
>
> But, anyway, it has been Firestarter that I have been using, not
> Smoothwall.
Firestarter just creates rules for iptables whereas Smoothwall includes
a caching DNS server (I haven't used it for some years, I use IPCop
instead). Your modem/router may include a caching DNS server, your ISP will.
>
> That is behind the firewall that is in the ADSL modem/router. I do not
> know what that firewall is.
As Andrei pointed out - the mirror you were trying to use is one served
by a DNS round-robin. So if repeated requests to
http://http.us.debian.org or ftp.us.debian.org keep getting the same IP
address then you're probably being served by a (possibly stale) DNS cache.
>
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>
>
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