On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, George Bonser wrote: : On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Carl Fink wrote: : : > Has anyone else noticed that the main (US) Debian servers have been : > remarkably slow lately? Both trying to use the web site, and : > ftp.debian.org for apt. : > : > I've switched apt to a mirror, but the mirrors of the web site are : > also so slow as to be nearly unusable?
All this sounds like a problem with the provider ... traceroutes may be in order. : One problem is the mirrors themselves. There is no standard method for : mirroring or any policy. Uh, no - this isn't true for http.us.debian.org [ snip ] : There is no policy for ensuring that the Packages file on 63.209.15.252 : matches the files on 207.69.194.216 so failures are frequent. To avoid the : whole problem many just use ftp.debian.org and are done with it. I really : do not care if things are not the most current, I do care that it is : consistant and predictable. Actually there is - all mirrors which comprise http.us.debian.org are (supposed) to be primary-push mirrors. They are updated regularly every day at the same time. The primary ftp server inititates the update. : Hate to bitch without offering a suggestion so one way of doing this is: : : 1. round-robin mirrors grab all the new packages : 2. they notify the central server that the update is complete : 3. Once all servers have notified the central server that they have all : packages, the new Packages files are pushed to them and old packages : that have been replaced (files that no longer exists on the master ) : are deleted. : 4. If a server has not notified the central master by a certain "drop : dead" time, it is removed from round-robin DNS and the Packages files : are pushed to the others. Once it reports in, its Packages file is sent : and it is added to the round-robin DNS. Hmm, good ideas ... let's see code :) You might want to float the idea on debian-mirrors also. Thanks, -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)