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Re: Bug#76994: apt: print IP address too



Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:

> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> 
> > One of the debian mirrors (maybe more than one) is consistently a poor
> > performer for me; I get big delays and such when the spinner on http.us.debian.org
> > hits it.
> 
> Use netselect on the host rotation, or better yet, don't use the rotation
> - pick a mirror that is close to you anyhow.

Well, this isn't a bug report against the mirror system. ;)  

> There is not screen space to show IPs, and the IPs can change with every
> request.

I agree that it wouldn't be feasible to print them for all users; how
about adding a command-line switch?  I'm happy for this to remain open
as a feature request; it's obviously not massively urgent, but it does
seem like a valuable option to have ultimately.



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