Bug#59723: apt: unreachable servers have to time out multiple times
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.18
Severity: wishlist
My sources.list has entries for multiple ftp servers. This works fine if all
servers are reachable; in case that one of the servers is de-synced, apt-get
fetches the latest packages from different servers.
However, when some servers are unreachable, apt-get tries it over and over,
waiting for timeouts multiple times. I'd love to see apt-get cache
unreachable servers for some time (maybe an hour) and not to retry it with
this kind of persistence.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux paola 2.2.14 #1 Sun Feb 27 15:41:04 CET 2000 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.3-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-6 The GNU stdc++ library
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