Re: Bug#41548: apt: apt stops downloading on odd-sized packages
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Derrik Pates wrote:
> When downloading packages, if I download a package where the size is > 500
> bytes over an even 1000 byte multiple, apt-get will sit there, waiting for
> more data, and finally time out. If I press ctrl-C while it's waiting for
This sounds like a MTU problem in your network, certainly it has
absolutely nothing to do with APT which uses sockets in quite an ordinary
way.
If you are using http your may even be behing a 'transparent' web proxy
that is massively defective, that is becoming lots more common.
Jason
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