Bug#96992: caching of http.us.debian.org doesn't work with apt-get

[Harald Dunkel <harri@synopsys.COM>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3

Hi folks,

I have tried Squid and Apache as a cache for apt-get. But for
http.us.debian.org caching of the *.debs and the Package files
works just by chance. Some files are still downloaded, even
though they should be in the cache due to the previous upgrade 
of an identical PC just a few minutes ago.

A clear indication for this are the download times: Uncached
files are downloaded with 45 KByte/sec, cached files reach 
more than 1 MByte/sec.

When I replace 'http.us.debian.org' in sources.list by one of 
its IP addresses (the same on all my clients, of course), then 
caching works as expected.


Regards

Harri