Bug#636292: MD5Sum mismatch is due to multiple DNS queries!

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

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