also sprach Brett Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.21.1023 +0100]: > *blink* - erm, just out of interest, how does this help? This is just > going to stop packets from going to that IP, it's not going to stop > things resolving to that IP, so instead of getting a slow connection > you're just going to get a connection refused...
... at which point APT will try the next record IIRC. I hope I am not misremembering this... > seems like an odd way of doing things - maybe it would be better > to use a local caching nameserver that you can configure to filter > out that IP when there is more than one A record available > instead? (I can't think of a simple way of doing that off the top > of my head, though) It also bears the risk of hardcoding and forgetting, or missing an update. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer and author: http://debiansystem.info `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP (sub)keys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! "if confronted with a choice between all the truth in god's right hand and the ever live struggle for truth, coupled with eternal error, in god's left, i would choose the left." -- gotthold lessing
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