> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:01:15 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: security updates using ftp > > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Nelson Last wrote: > > > deb ftp://130.89.149.226/debian squeeze main > > deb ftp://128.31.0.36/debian-security/ squeeze/updates main > > Please realize that none of this is guaranteed to remain working.
I do, but others might not have realized it, and I should have said so. Thanks for the heads-up! > > We might derotate servers from dns when they fall behind or provide > wrong data, or we might retired them or we might repurpose them. > > The DNS will point to servers providing the services, but the actual IP > addresses might change (and regularly do). > > > The proper fix is to kick your networking people so that deb > http://security.d.o and friends work. Agreed (that is what I meant by "And I've discovered a problem with that of my organization", but that wasn't very clear). In the meantime I'll figure out a script to either update my sources.list or hosts file as needed. My immediate fix is not intended to be permanent, but it got the job done for the moment. I try to never leave things hacked up like this. I would much rather fix it right, and quick, before I forget about it. > > -- > | .''`. ** Debian ** > Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal > http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System > | `- http://www.debian.org/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >
