Bug#636292: MD5Sum mismatch is due to multiple DNS queries!
retitle 636292 MD5Sum mismatch error
thanks
jidanni@jidanni.org, le Tue 02 Aug 2011 09:10:40 +0800, a écrit :
> I think I have a very good idea of what is causing all those MD5Sum
> mismatch errors during apt-get update.
> ( http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.mirrors/1368 )
>
> You see during a single apt-get update, there will be TWO (2) queries
> made to the DNS server for each ONE (1) line in a sources.list file.
>
> I believe one query gets the thing. The other gets the checksum of the
> thing.
>
> Now you can guess what will happen when that one line is a round robin
> site name.
I'm getting the error on all ftp.{uk,ch,fr}.debian.org sites, which do
not use round robin at all.
Samuel
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